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    The Kelo Case

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    The Kelo case was appealed by petitioners to the New London Superior Court where the court granted a restraining order prohibiting the taking of some of the properties, but denying relief as to others, and was affirmed in part and reversed in part by the Connecticut Supreme Court. The Issue: Does the taking of the petitioner’s properties violate the “public use” restriction in the fifth amendment’s taking clause or is the “public use” clause valid for purposes of betterment for the community…

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    Amour Propre Analysis

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    Inequalities of Property in Society In the Second Discourse on Inequality, Jean Jacque Rousseau outlined the origin and development of private property. The formation of the hut was the first step towards the ultimate creation of society as families and communities formed. Unlike savage man who’s primary motivation was self-preservation, civilized man embraced amour propre as he started to compare his strengths and abilities to others. Although Rousseau argued that the invention of private…

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    Jean Jacque Rousseau outlined the origin and development of private property. The formation of the hut is the first step towards the ultimate creation of society as families and communities start to form. Unlike savage man who’s primary motivation was self-preservation, civilized man embraced amour propre as they begin to compare their strengths and abilities of others. Although Rousseau argues that the invention of private property is not natural, it is inevitable as it becomes a necessity due…

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    block this development plan (476). Others claimed that their “investment properties,” because they were not “blighted or otherwise in poor condition,” could not be taken by the government (476). Do Kelo’s and the other defendants’ claim to their property through proper maintenance and labor supersede the governments right to repossess the properties for economic development? Justice O’Connor, argues yes: because the property is not causing an “inflicted affirmative harm on society,” it cannot…

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    Eminent Domain Essay

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    Eminent domain, the government taking one’s property for a just compensation, and using the land for a public use, can destroy someone’s life or an entire neighborhood. If the government can take control of anyone’s land, the government can take control of the people. Most Americans would say that their home is a cherished land with many extravagant and astonishing memories of their past. Now ask the same Americans if they would be “ok” with someone swooping in and just taking all of those…

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    Sphere, Habermas talks about how the bourgeois public sphere transformed. He defines the public sphere as a virtual or imaginary community which does not necessarily exist in any recognizable space. In its ideal form, the public sphere is "made up of private people gathered together as a public and expressing the needs of society with the state. Throughout the book Habermas asserts that the bourgeois public sphere is premised on the incorrect identification between human being and bourgeois. The…

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    take president since everyone is free, equal and has a right to private property. In a state of nature when self interest, bias and revenge are present each can lead to a state of war. People join societies in order to gain protection, but what if society isn’t there to protect you? Before society, people would live in a state of nature. In a state of nature, Locke says that we are free, equal and have rights to our private property specifically when he writes, “Being all equal and…

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    determine whether a city’s decision to take property for the purpose of economic development satisfies the ‘public use’ requirement of the Fifth Amendment.” The United States Supreme Court agreed with the result in the lower courts. The Supreme Court held that economic development can constitute “public use” within the meaning of the Fifth Amendment’s takings clause to justify a local government’s exercise of its power of eminent domain to take private property. The Court reasoned that the plan…

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    as Plato is to create a perfect society, Aristotle is more concerned in improving the existing society. Plato has divided the people of the polis into three classes. Guardian classes are the rulers and Plato believes that they should not own private property because this can tamper with their commitment to the common good. They should only think about the good of the city and are not able to make their marital choices as well. Plato promoted a government…

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    a new theory of property in the early seventeenth century by English philosopher John Lock led to considerations of the emergence of private property and subject to ownership, and land that must be cultivated. John Locke developed this idea of property in the context of English’s appropriation of American soil especially. Chapter V of The Second Treatise of Government ‘Of property’ highlights Locke’s ideas about property. This treatise describes the Lockean theory of property as a theory of…

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