
Kelo v. New London
5-4
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The Court Holds That Public Use Is Equal to Public Purpose
Petitioners say the government can't just take their property and hand it over to a private corporation. The legal issue here is about the takings clause of the Fifth Amendment. If that's public, then what could a private purpose possibly look like? There's nothing really stopping the government from just seizing a poor person's home and giving it to a rich person on the grounds that they have the resources to do better with it.
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