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The Origins And Original Significance Of The Just Compensation Clause Of The Fifth Amendment, William Michael Treanor
The Origins And Original Significance Of The Just Compensation Clause Of The Fifth Amendment, William Michael Treanor
Georgetown Law Faculty Publications and Other Works
The principle that the state necessarily owes compensation when it takes private property was not generally accepted in either colonial or revolutionary America. Uncompensated takings were frequent and found justification first in appeals to the crown and later in republicanism, the ideology of the Revolution. The post-independence movement for just compensation requirements at the state and national level was part of a broader ideological shift away from republicanism, which stressed the primacy of the common good, and toward liberalism. At the time the Bill of Rights was adopted, that shift had not been completed, but the trends of the revolutionary …
Less Than The Sum Of Its Parts, Charles F. Abernathy
Less Than The Sum Of Its Parts, Charles F. Abernathy
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Constitutional Choices is not a newly created treatise but a collection of essays on a diverse range of topics. Most were printed previously in serial publications, and the others, one suspects, arose from projects undertaken independently of one another over the last few years. Such reprintings may strike some as a waste of paper and purchasers' money, but, as The New Yorker Album of Drawings amply proves, additional insight is often gained from seeing parts brought together as a whole. But that is not the case here, for the whole of Tribe's new book is less than the sum of …