Private Property Rights and Government Encroachment

The right to property is one of our most fundamental rights as humans and as Americans. However, even here politicians and lawyers can't seem to extricate themselves from their lust for power. Rather than ruling in favor of private property rights we now have rulings like the Kelo decision.

On June 23, 2005, the United State Supreme Court dealt a fatal blow to private property rights with the decision issued in Kelo v. New London. This landmark ruling allows state and local governments to use the previously redefined meaning of “public use” from the Fifth Amendment (also known as the Takings Clause) to use eminent domain to essentially steal property from one private entity and transfer it to another.

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