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Does your private property really belong to you?
No, says the Supreme Court -- sanctioning the growing abuse of "eminent domain" by governments
Bulldozed
by Carla T. Main
Imagine living in a country where the government can swoop in at any moment and seize your home, your business, even your local church -- and give it to someone else for their personal profit. Well, guess what? You already do. In Bulldozed: "Kelo," Eminent Domain, and the American Lust for Land, veteran journalist Carla T. Main takes a hard look at the sad state of property rights in America, showing how easy it has become for local governments to seize private property and turn it over to private developers under the guise of "public improvements" and "public use."
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And it's not just the Supreme Court's 2005 "eminent domain" ruling in Kelo v. New London, Connecticut that's to blame, shows Main -- governments at both the local, state and federal levels have been grabbing land at an alarming rate for decades. Main traces the history of this trend, addresses the major ethical and Constitutional issues at stake, and answers the question, What price does American society pay for economic development takings? Some highlights of Bulldozed:
- How the Court's ruling in Kelo flagrant violations of the letter and spirit of the Fifth Amendment, which reads in part, "nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation."
- The real meaning of "public use," according to the Framers: roads, bridges, and forts -- not big--box store and luxury boat marinas
- It didn't start with Kelo: how, in the early 1980s Poletown, Michigan, bulldozed over 1,500 homes, 144 businesses, 16 churches and an old factory -- relocating 3,400 people -- to make way for a General Motors plant
- The 1954 Berman v Parker case that gave the constitutional stamp of approval to the use of eminent domain for slum removal -- and how Urban Planners use this to displace poor minorities from their homes
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