Reviving the property rights outrage
Center For Individual Freedom
by staff
04/20/06
Last June, the Supreme Court's decision in the now-infamous Kelo case struck a judicial blow to Americans' constitutional right to own property without fear of government seizure. Recall that the decision validated the notion that a local government could seize private property and hand it over to a private developer with no more justification than the claim that the new development would provide greater tax revenue than the homes, businesses, churches or farms that it might be replacing. Somehow, the High Court managed to finagle their way around the Constitution's clear command that the government could not seize private property under any circumstances except if the land was being taken for a public use -- a road, a bridge, a canal or some other form of infrastructure...
http://tinyurl.com/nn3xh
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
by staff
04/20/06
Last June, the Supreme Court's decision in the now-infamous Kelo case struck a judicial blow to Americans' constitutional right to own property without fear of government seizure. Recall that the decision validated the notion that a local government could seize private property and hand it over to a private developer with no more justification than the claim that the new development would provide greater tax revenue than the homes, businesses, churches or farms that it might be replacing. Somehow, the High Court managed to finagle their way around the Constitution's clear command that the government could not seize private property under any circumstances except if the land was being taken for a public use -- a road, a bridge, a canal or some other form of infrastructure...
http://tinyurl.com/nn3xh
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
rudkla - 21. Apr, 16:37
