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To: editor-surveyor

The U.S. Supreme Court first examined federal eminent domain power in 1876 in Kohl v. United States. This case presented a landowner’s challenge to the power of the United States to condemn land in Cincinnati, Ohio for use as a custom house and post office building. Justice William Strong called the authority of the federal government to appropriate property for public uses “essential to its independent existence and perpetuity.” Kohl v. United States, 91 U.S. 367, 371 (1875).

The Supreme Court again acknowledged the existence of condemnation authority twenty years later in United States v. Gettysburg Electric Railroad Company. Congress wanted to acquire land to preserve the site of the Gettysburg Battlefield in Pennsylvania. The railroad company that owned some of the property in question contested this action. Ultimately, the Court opined that the federal government has the power to condemn property “whenever it is necessary or appropriate to use the land in the execution of any of the powers granted to it by the constitution.” United States v. Gettysburg Electric Ry., 160 U.S. 668, 679 (1896).

http://www.justice.gov/enrd/history-federal-use-eminent-domain


133 posted on 01/08/2016 9:58:59 AM PST by GOPJ (Hillary's a broccoli politician - Donald Trump's an all-you-can-eat donut truck. Glenn Thrush)
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To: GOPJ

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You constantly dissemble.

Nothing in your post was in any way relevant to the fact that Don Trump used eminent domain to literally steal the ultimate value equity of properties from long time working class owners by buying off crooked local officials.

Trump is an immoral man. A man of low character.
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165 posted on 01/08/2016 10:51:57 AM PST by editor-surveyor (Freepers: Not as smart as I'd hoped they'd be)
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