Washington Examiner
US · 2 hrs ago
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The government took your property without buying it
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The article argues that while the Fifth Amendment protects property owners from government seizure without compensation, it does not protect against government actions that merely diminish property value, a distinction that the author suggests has cost property owners billions of dollars.
The government took your property without buying it
The Fifth Amendment says the government can’t take your property for public use without paying you for it. It doesn’t say the government can’t destroy your property’s value, a very different thing. That distinction has cost property owners billions of dollars they’ll never recover. James Madison wrote that government is instituted to protect property of […]
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