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    Private property, which is supported mainly by capitalists, is when an individual or business owns their own property. This property can include land, factories, personal items, or anything else that is considered a “non-governmental legal entity.” The point of this is to allow anyone the chance to earn, and maintain a property. This is one of the biggest incentives to work hard and work your way up so that you can receive this valuable reward. Knowing that something will always be yours, offers security for the future for you and/or your family. In terms of a business, the incentives work the same way. A start up company can expand and grow and everything that that company earns will stay within the company rather than going elsewhere. From a different perspective, socialists keep private property and public property completely separate. Private property only includes houses and personal belongings, like clothing or other things an individual owns. The rest of it would be considered public property. Public property is owned by the state government and is public for anyone to use. Examples of this would be places like libraries, roads, and national parks. But also with housing, socialists believe that public housing should also be provided. This would make the cost of living a little more affordable but also could make the quality worse and the…

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    of discussion because there are many factors that play into it. In fact, private property plays a very important key role in the discussion of equality. This is because private property involves both material and monetary items, and these are resources that are fought over on the daily when it comes to equal or fair distribution of wealth. A key question brought up by this is not only what counts as property, but whether or not it is a valuable concept that should be maintained or destroyed in…

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    The Kelo Case

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    the supreme court of Connecticut Procedural History: 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”…

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    When the Fifth Amendment was passed in the United States, part of its function was to give the government the power of eminent domain. The power of allows them to take an individual’s private property in return for “just compensation” for “public use” with the intent to better off a community. This could mean that a plot of land could be seized by the government with plans to become a road or a canal. In those cases, the government would be turning a private plot of land into a “public use” in…

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    Essay On Eminent Domain

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    liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation” (Williams). Or so that is what the modern people of the U.S thought. Eminent domain was one of the first powers given to the government from the Fifth Amendment. Even though it was one of the first powers that was given to the government, it has become one of the most abused recently in numerous court cases. The vast majority of them end with the government winning…

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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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    domain is the power of the government to extract one’s own property for communal operations in exchange for a reward. The just compensation clause in the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution grants its use in the United States. Though the legality of eminent domain is honest, citizens are still susceptible to this inequitable act of tyranny. First, the government will select the property they want to utilize. Next, a meeting is assembled between a member of the government and the owner of the…

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    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 “unquestionably serves a public…

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    In the Kelo v. New London court case, Suzette Kelo and eight petitioners opposed a eminent domain taking “projected to create in excess of 1,000 jobs, to increase tax and other revenues, and to revitalize an economically distressed city” (“Kelo” 472). Suzette Kelo claimed the “extensive improvements” that she had made on her house justified her ability to block this development plan (476). Others claimed that their “investment properties,” because they were not “blighted or otherwise in poor…

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    revitalize the city. The project’s development agent purchased property and proposed the use of eminent domain to acquire the remaining property necessary for the plan through compensation to unwilling owners. Susette Kelo owned property in the development area along with nine other petitioners. They brought suit in the New London Superior Court, claiming the taking of their properties violated the “public use” restriction of the Fifth Amendment. The Connecticut Supreme Court held the city’s…

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