One of my angriest complaints against the HOA movement is the almost complete void of the recognition of this fundamental principle in the documents of a typical Homeowners Association. Due Process isn’t some newfangled thing invented by our nation’s founders. No, the concept of Due Process has its roots in the Magna Carta, a document developed by freedom minded revolutionaries who were trying to bring a tyrannical British monarch under control.

So when our founders were establishing the kind of republic that had never existed on this Earth, a republic guaranteeing the maximum amount of freedom to the maximum number of people, they sought to interweave the concept of Due Process into our founding documents. They even wrote into our Constitution ways of correcting errors of Due Process, although it took a Civil War and a half million lives to bring that about.

But here comes the HOA movement, a movement dedicated to fleecing unwitting homeowners out of their life savings. One of the first things they had to do was generate corporate ‘agreements’ where American home buyers unwittingly signed away their rights to Constitutional Due Process. And 62 million homeowners did exactly that, leading to a fifty billion dollar industry that routinely fleeces homeowners.  Read more: