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  2. Eminent domain in the United States - Wikipedia

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    That view ended in 1896 when, in the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Co. v. City of Chicago case, the court held that the eminent domain provisions of the Fifth Amendment were incorporated in the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and thus were now binding on the states, or in other words, when the states take private property ...

  3. Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution - Wikipedia

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    The "Takings Clause", the last clause of the Fifth Amendment, limits the power of eminent domain by requiring "just compensation" be paid if private property is taken for public use. It was the only clause in the Bill of Rights drafted solely by James Madison and not previously recommended to him by other constitutional delegates or a state ...

  4. Eminent domain - Wikipedia

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    Eminent domain [a], ... differing views on eminent domain were voiced. The Fifth Amendment to the Constitution requires that the taking be for a "public use" and ...

  5. List of amendments to the Constitution of the United States

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    The only amendment to be ratified through this method thus far is the Twenty-first Amendment in 1933. ... Sets rules for indictment by grand jury and eminent domain, ...

  6. Kelo v. City of New London - Wikipedia

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    Kelo v. City of New London, 545 U.S. 469 (2005), [1] was a landmark decision by the Supreme Court of the United States in which the Court held, 5–4, that the use of eminent domain to transfer land from one private owner to another private owner to further economic development does not violate the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment.

  7. Turnpike's land seizure, other eminent domain acts could mean ...

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    Eminent domain claims can make the case that your property would better serve the ... Its origins come from the last lines of the Fifth Amendment … “[No person shall] be deprived of life ...

  8. United States Bill of Rights - Wikipedia

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    The Fifth Amendment protects against double jeopardy and self-incrimination and guarantees the rights to due process, grand jury screening of criminal indictments, and compensation for the seizure of private property under eminent domain. The amendment was the basis for the court's decision in Miranda v.

  9. The Government Took a Developer's Land and Gave It to a ... - AOL

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    City of New London, which blessed the use of eminent domain to promote economic development by transferring property from one private owner to another. But even under Kelo , the Institute for ...