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To: RightWhale

Well, I think the framers' position was that we were born with our (natural) rights, endowed by the Creator. All of which were not enumerated for fear that someone might assume that the named ones were the only ones.

I do admit that by necessity that's somewhat vague, but I don't have too much trouble figuring out that it wasn't contemplated that the state could take one man's property and sell it to another in the name of the common good. I am pretty shocked about it.


72 posted on 06/23/2005 7:25:30 PM PDT by Sam Cree (Democrats are herd animals)
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To: Sam Cree
Yeah, it's a wake-up call for many. The State has been doing this all along and only recently was it pointed out that they had to actually pay for land they took, and fair market value, too.

I don't like the idea of the State in any kind of business relationship, which ought to be the issue of the day, not that they can take land at all. There is a problem there, and some legal problems. It's a legal tightrope.

74 posted on 06/23/2005 7:29:09 PM PDT by RightWhale (withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty)
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To: Sam Cree

I also have issues with city planning when it involves commercial districts that people have to drive to, especially with some problems in the cost of gasoline starting to get real obvious.


75 posted on 06/23/2005 7:31:14 PM PDT by RightWhale (withdraw from the 1967 UN Outer Space Treaty)
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