Stopping the government's property grab
Los Angeles Times
by Roger Pilon
10/30/06
Next month, in 12 states, including California, voters will get a rare chance to talk back to the Supreme Court. Those are the states with measures on their ballots to protect property rights, sparked by the court's 2005 Kelo decision, which lets government condemn a person's property and give it to someone else who can make 'better use' of it. In an instant, Americans across the country woke up to the realization that, as Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote in dissent, 'The specter of condemnation hangs over all property.' To date, 30 states have enacted measures to restrain their power to condemn, and citizens have stepped in where legislatures have balked, placing initiatives on the ballots...
http://tinyurl.com/yl442g
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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by Roger Pilon
10/30/06
Next month, in 12 states, including California, voters will get a rare chance to talk back to the Supreme Court. Those are the states with measures on their ballots to protect property rights, sparked by the court's 2005 Kelo decision, which lets government condemn a person's property and give it to someone else who can make 'better use' of it. In an instant, Americans across the country woke up to the realization that, as Justice Sandra Day O'Connor wrote in dissent, 'The specter of condemnation hangs over all property.' To date, 30 states have enacted measures to restrain their power to condemn, and citizens have stepped in where legislatures have balked, placing initiatives on the ballots...
http://tinyurl.com/yl442g
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Kelo
rudkla - 31. Okt, 16:37
