[Carry_Okie]

There are hazards to enforced uniformity among the States. Kelo was correctly decided per the original Tenth Amendment intent of the Constitution as a federal republic, even if the action by the City of New London was itself an abomination.

IMO if we employ an amendment to nationalize the standards for eminent domain, then we will have precluded the several States from instituting yet more stringent protections for private property against eminent domain takings. Natural Law competition among the States is a better way to demonstrate the trade-offs between facilitating redevelopment and instituting competition between speculative landowners and fractional ownership. It is my hope that we may see more active markets in real estate options as a way of precluding the need for "planning."

[WayneS]

No,it was not correctly decided. The fifth amendment applies to the States and it always has.