The Eminent Domain Revolt: Changing Perceptions in a New Constitutional Epoch

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Algora Publishing, 2007 - 269 strani
A journalist and critic with a law degree, Ryskamp begins with the story of the women in New London, Connecticut who refused to give up her house to a pharmaceutical giant, as directed by her city government. He asks why she fought all the way to the US Supreme Court when no one thought she had a chance, why her loss sparked legislation in every st
 

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Chapter 1 Individual Rights Before Kelo v New London
11
Chapter 2 Kelo and Its Discontents
65
Chapter 3 The New Bill of Rights as Law
123
Chapter 4 The New Bill of Rights as Fact
167
Chapter 5 The Early Days of the New Bill of Rights
201
Conclusion
251
Bibliography
261
Index
265
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Stran 25 - Constitution, independent tribunals of justice will consider themselves in a peculiar manner the guardians of those rights; they will be an impenetrable bulwark against every assumption of power in the Legislative or Executive; they will be naturally led to resist every encroachment upon rights expressly stipulated for in the Constitution by the declaration of rights.
Stran 23 - The General Assembly shall provide for the maintenance and support of a thorough and efficient system of public schools, wherein all the children of this Commonwealth, above the age of six years, may be educated, and shall appropriate at least one million dollars each year for that purpose.
Stran 13 - The right to earn enough to provide adequate food and clothing and recreation; The right of every farmer to raise and sell his products at a return which will give him and his family a decent living...
Stran 23 - A general diffusion of knowledge being essential to the preservation of the liberties and rights of the people, it shall be the duty of the legislature of the state to establish and make suitable provision for the support and maintenance of an efficient system of public free schools.

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