Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain Heather Alexander Author/Artist:Ernest Scott|Colin Wilson

Author/Artist:Ernest Scott|Colin Wilson

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Takings: Private Property and the Power of Eminent Domain Heather Alexander Author/Artist:Ernest Scott|Colin WilsonIf legal scholar Richard Epstein is right, then the New Deal is wrong, if not unconstitutional. Epstein reaches this sweeping conclusion after making a detailed analysis of the eminent domain, or takings, clause of the Constitution, which states that private property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation. In contrast to the other guarantees in the Bill of Rights, the eminent domain clause has been interpreted narrowly. It has