For Kant, property and territorial rights based on a past history of title exchange seem to involve a whole host of potential problems. I approach them from the angle that, for Kant, justified property rights must be communicable, and draw limits on potentially justified property rights. I draw from another source dealing with communicability, that of Kant''s discussion of religion, both a rational religion and as passed down from history. I draw a comparison between property rights based on a history of a community''s interpretation of land titles and the rights and prerogatives of a church based on a history. I argue that Kant believes that there are certain things that we simply do not have the moral power to fully renounce forever, so that no history can be interpreted as having resulted in certain unjustified rights. I note how Kant thinks the right to "freedom of speech" is related to this impossibility, and how it can be said to arise from it. I also note the problems with this view, as found in Kant or interpretation of Kant along these lines.
