Oh geeeez, eminent domain was not bolstered by last summer's U.S. Supreme Court ruling... it has been, and always will be a power reserved to states or local govt. to control or abuse. If citizens are too lazy to enact laws to protect abusive use of domain statutes then too bad....its not a US Supreme Court concern.
>> Oh geeeez, eminent domain was not bolstered by last summer's U.S. Supreme Court ruling... it has been, and always will be a power reserved to states or local govt. to control or abuse. <<
Really? It has always? I'm sure you can provide the precendents, then? So, please do educate all of us, Ms. O'Connor*, when has eminent domain ever been used in the 18th or 19th centuries to benefit a private citizen for no public good other than a supposed increase in tax revenue?
Even if the wording of the Constitution is ambiguous, the practice is not. It is quite plain that the founding fathers considered the unjust siezure of private property both contemptible and destructive of freedom.
(* Oh, excuse me... I just presumed you were she, from your screen name... only taunting :^) ...)