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Life, Liberty & Whose Property?: An Essay On Property Rights, Loren A. Smith Jan 1996

Life, Liberty & Whose Property?: An Essay On Property Rights, Loren A. Smith

University of Richmond Law Review

This essay explores the place that the concept of property rights occupies in our constitutional system. The word "property" has been used in a number of ways in the history of our Republic.


Suburbs Under Siege: Race, Space And Audacious Judges, Abigail T. Baker Jan 1996

Suburbs Under Siege: Race, Space And Audacious Judges, Abigail T. Baker

University of Richmond Law Review

Across the United States, cities are witnessing a mass exodus into the suburbs with increasing frequency. The prestige that once attached to urbanites is now equated with these "new suburbanites." Claiming better schools, safer neighborhoods and overall peace of mind, the new suburbanites have been the pied-piper to thousands of other city dwellers. By and large, those that have been able to afford to move out of the cities are white, middle-class Americans.6 Local exclusionary zoning, by permitting only certain types of homes to be built in a specific area, has rendered the American dream-owning a home in suburbia-unattainable for …