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To: BerthaDee

It aint over by a long shot. They just need to keep this crap up, and royally piss off the American people. They are one judicial appointement away from eternity, and one amendment away from being told to go to hell. It aint time to play Cowboys and Justices yet.


423 posted on 06/23/2005 12:08:35 PM PDT by Dead Dog
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To: Dead Dog

From the Fith Amendment: "...nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."

The Supremes have affirmed that "public use" is an unqualified term in the context of the amendment and, therefore, anyone seeking to take land needs no qualifiers as long as they can make a claim to "public use", however tenuous.

I take this opportunity to point out that "just compensation" is a likewise unqualified term in the context of the same amendment and, therefore, anyone having their property taken has every iota of freedom to define "just compensation" as the freedom the Court has now affirmed for defining the term "public use".


431 posted on 06/23/2005 12:23:21 PM PDT by HKMk23 (PROP 65. WARNING: This post may contain ideas known to the State of California to be conservative.)
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