[Liz]

28th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America : "Resolved: no government, agency, district, or authority, nor any such entity created under the authority of same, whether public or private, shall have the authority to compel any owner of a property, whether real or virtual, movable or not, to sell same to any other entity, whether public or private, by use of any application or form of law, duress, coercement, or mandate."

[Peach]

I know. It's a good case for conservative SCOTUS appointments was the only good thing we could find in this recent ruling.

[dalight]

Useless effort if the judges just rule that this means something other than what is written. In Kelo, the Court found that it isn't bound by the words on the page, thus in interpreting the constitution, they are perfectly capable of defining red to be blue, day to be night and up to be down, and the only recourse people have is to write another silly useless amendment.

[jla]

28th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America : "Resolved: no government, agency, district, or authority, nor any such entity created under the authority of same, whether public or private, shall have the authority to compel any owner of a property, whether real or virtual, movable or not, to sell same to any other entity, whether public or private, by use of any application or form of law, duress, coercement, or mandate."

Nice, but I'd add a Section 2 -

No citizen's property ("land") will at any time be subjected to any type of tax or levy.

And being that this would be in the U.S. Constitution it supercedes any state or local attempt to tax one's property.

[Mark was here]

I have been thinking about a new amendment for a while, here is the idea.

The government cannot transfer ownership of any property taken by eminent domain, to private ownership, until a period of 100 years has passed. No scheme of any sort to subvert this simple principal will be permitted.

[haroldeveryman]

" 28th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America : "Resolved: no government, agency, district, or authority, nor any such entity created under the authority of same, whether public or private, shall have the authority to compel any owner of a property, whether real or virtual, movable or not, to sell same to any other entity, whether public or private, by use of any application or form of law, duress, coercement, or mandate."

So this little detail escaped our supreme court justices , but they succeeded in finding abortion rights. Hmmmm!