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Emminent domain actually violates the constitution, which states that personal property rights are practicaly enshrined by the hand of god. The supreme court has really fucked up this time, when they ruled a piece of land could be siezed and sold to a developer for the purpose of building a shopping mall!
Originally it was designed to allow the gov to force you to sell land to THEM so they could build roads, and such (As stated above) or build a new city hall or a missle base, or w/e. The new ruling however opens it WAY up for serious abuse by the rich, or in this case the sorta rich.
Personally, i'd rather see the land turned into a university than a golf course or shore front residential development, but it is still wrong to TAKE something from a private owner and give it to another private owner.
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