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To: GunRunner

Again, neither Trump or any other developer has the ability to forcefully take any private property. They must follow the process and a court of law will decide the matter. Eminent domain goes back to our founding fathers. It is in the Constitution. The Constiturion also makes provision for fair compensation but in practice, the compensation greatly exceeds market value.


265 posted on 10/07/2015 3:02:06 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (A businessman gets things done with own money. A politician takes money and gets nothing done.)
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To: SamAdams76
Trump supports empowering the government to take anyone's property for any reason and transfer it to another private entity. The Kelo decision allows any government entity to define "public use" as it sees fit, and interpreted the Takings Clause to have absolutely no limits whatsoever. You're free to agree with Souter, Breyer, Ginsberg, Kennedy, and Stevens, but please don't sit here and call yourself a conservative, because you're not.

A corporate development or private party is not a "public use", I don't care what John Paul Stevens says!

267 posted on 10/07/2015 3:11:04 PM PDT by GunRunner
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