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To: RightWhale
That is personal property, not real estate. Maybe a house qualifies as real estate, but the land is the main issue. They distinguished between land and personal property.

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

What is so difficult to understand here? I am not secure in my house and the land on which it is built if the government seizes it so they can build a "for-profit" development against my will...it is not reasonable at all. Taking the whole means to an end...resisting eminant domain ultimately results in an unreasonable seizure. Just ask the folks Bensenville, IL (a Northwest suburb of Chicago) regarding the King Daley's O'Hare airport expansion.

296 posted on 06/23/2005 8:57:53 AM PDT by BureaucratusMaximus (Socialists are blessed with the desire to serve others. That's why most of them work @ McDonalds)
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To: BureaucratusMaximus
and the land on which it is built

Why did you add that? The author of the original assertion did not add that.

Somebody else in all likelihood owns the land under your house. You in all likelihood have surface use rights. If you have other rights, you are uncommonly rare.

332 posted on 06/23/2005 9:08:01 AM PDT by RightWhale (withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty)
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