Posted on 06/23/2005 7:30:08 AM PDT by Helmholtz
WHAT THE HELL PEOPLE!?!?
Totally f'ing unacceptable.
he pretty well has to, if he dares ever again speak the words "ownership society."
Yes, the outcome would have been very different.
I've never seen more than a minute of any episode.
Although I'd like to convert it never seems to happen, any suggestions?
A black black black day.
Welcome to the former USSR/Nazi Germany, where the govt. can just snap their fingers, take away your personal property, and pay you next to nothing. Very nice.
They said a lot of things. One thing: the commercial class was under-represented in Congress in favor of the landed class. Another thing was the evil of paper money. Lots of things, including that the Union was about dead in 1787.
I agree, and let me bet that Kudlow never mentions this or for that matter any other DC whore who preaches economic growth. This issue might never pass the lips of Limbaugh, Hannity, or O'Reilly because they are at heart plutocrats insulated from "takings" by their residence in gated communities. I guess I should go put on my feedbag now and shut up.
I'm very interested to read the opinion. It's not yet available...
"Some state constitutions might already ban it."
The Arizona state constitution specifically mentions this kind of crap.
I believe that China now has more respect for private property than this country.
The descent into rot continues.
Sons of bitches. If they want to take my house, they'll have to kill me for it.
No, property rights come from our God given right to KEEP what we EARN!
It's why life liberty and property are NOT in the Constitution, which is a POSITIVE law contract, but in the Declaration of Independence!
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Men are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights,-'life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness;' and to 'secure,' not grant or create, these rights, governments are instituted. That property which a man has honestly acquired he retains full control of, subject to these limitations:
First, that he shall not use it to his neighbor's injury, and that does not mean that he must use it for his neighbor's benefit;
second, that if the devotes it to a public use, he gives to the public a right to control that use;
and third, that whenever the public needs require, the public may take it upon payment of due compensation.
BUDD v. PEOPLE OF STATE OF NEW YORK, 143 U.S. 517 (1892) _________________________________________________________________
That these are our grievances which we have thus laid before his majesty, with that freedom of language and sentiment which becomes a free people claiming their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the gift of their chief magistrate.
Thomas Jefferson, Rights of British America, 1774
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Natural rights [are] the objects for the protection of which society is formed and municipal laws established.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Monroe, 1791
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Show the statement that supports your claim that property rights are explicitly granted by the Constitution.
I think you're right. We went to war against England over things such as this.
That's exactly what the Court held in the 60s in a case in Michigan when a city took some blighted land for redevelopment. In my opinion, I think the fellow that argued the case for the landowners really dropped the ball. He argued that the tax benefits to the city were speculative, therefore it wasn't a public use. I think he should have argued, simply, that public use means a school or a courthouse or whatever. Attack the very heart of the issue, don't dance around it.
I agree! I have been through this and it isn't fun. This is one area my lib dem sister is very conservative in her thinking. She's royally pissed off and wanting to start a campaign to change things.
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