[DoodleDawg]

Eminent domain is not limited to private property. ANY property within their sovereign territory may be seized for public use.

You're just making this crap up as you go along. Please point me to a single source that defines eminent domain the way that you do.

[BroJoeK]

FLT-bird: "Eminent domain is not limited to private property.
ANY property within their sovereign territory may be seized for public use."

DoodleDawg: "You're just making this crap up as you go along.
Please point me to a single source that defines eminent domain the way that you do."

That piqued my curiosity so went looking...
Turns out, the original definition of eminent domain by Hugo Grotius in 1625 includes this:

"...when this is done, the state is bound to make good the loss to those who lose their property."

So, eminent domain gives a state the right to take a citizen's property, but only with just compensation, and in the British/American tradition, only after legitimate legal processes.

More important, at no time did a single Confederate entity ever declare it was seizing Federal properties on grounds of "eminent domain" -- they didn't bother, they just took what they wanted, by force when necessary.

Historically, governments which seize properties and threaten officials from other governments are committing acts of aggression and risking the direst of consequences.