[gondramB]

Just bcause eminant domain is constitutional doesn't mean it needs to happen all the time - this is a poster child example of the need for states to step up to plate.

[Sacajaweau]

I bet this gets reversed on appeal.

[Sacajaweau]

I bet this gets reversed on appeal.

[RollTideRoll]

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

...That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it...

There is no way in hell our forefathers would have put up with this.