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To: Ma3lst0rm
nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Honestly, read it. They founders wrote it as simply and as acurately as anyone could wish. We just need judges who understand that this is a limitation on the government not on the people!

75 posted on 06/23/2005 8:50:08 PM PDT by TheOtherOne (I often sacrifice my spelling on the alter of speed™)
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To: TheOtherOne
Amendment V

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Like it or not, the constitution already seems to allow the taking of private property, with "just" compensation, whatever that is.

90 posted on 06/23/2005 8:56:05 PM PDT by AZLiberty
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