'Few people deny the government’s power to take property to satisfy the owner’s debts, subject to due process and other protections, but no government has any proper business taking more than it is owed.' -Ilya Shapiro
Tyler v. Hennepin County
Progressive groups such as the Constitutional Accountability Center are aligned with conservative groups such as the Claremont Institute’s Center for Constitutional Jurisprudence. The American Civil Liberties Union is on a brief with the Cato Institute.
That original understanding of the just compensation clause, rooted in the Magna Carta and applied consistently to this day, makes clear that when the government takes an interest in property for public use, its duty to compensate the former owner is categorical. In drafting the Fifth Amendment, James Madison restated familiar and uncontroversial precepts of English law that had by then taken root in colonial statutes and common law.
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