By Joel Salatin Eminent domain has two rules.
First, the public (government) taking of private property must be for a public use, not a private use. Second, the owner must be given fair market value for the property taken.
Plenty of court proceedings throughout American history attest to the subjectivity of both of these rules, but in general it has functioned fairly well.
What constitutes property has been argued back and forth, but for sure it includes more than land. It can be buildings and possessions on that land. Even patents and other intellectual property.
The point is that when government decides to take stuff, it can’t …read more
