Thursday, July 07, 2005

Eminent Domain Amendment

Saw this linked at TriggerFinger and thought I'd link it here as well.

Last I saw they were up to revision 8.

The right to ownership of property being the cornerstone of liberty, no government body within these United States shall have the authority to take property from one private citizen, corporation, or organization to be given, sold, leased, rented, or otherwise conveyed in any form to any other citizen, corporation, or organization for any reason. No private citizen, corporation, or organization shall own any right, title, or interest in the property so acquired. Public use shall be understood to be property entirely owned, maintained and operated by government for a period of not less than 50 years.

Just Compensation shall be higher of the twice average price paid for similar property in the preceding twelve months or the average of the previous 12 recorded similar property transactions.

I think that is pretty concise. I'd vote for it.

1 comment:

geekwife said...

Sounds good to me. Like you said, concise. But very, very clear. Something has to be done, and fast, 'cuz that Supreme Court ruling is a disaster.