Yes, the privision is one of the fifth amendment's several parts.
Actually, the T probably always could take our property for a bus route--or, at least, the city or the state could. (I'm unclear just what kind of entity the T is.) Creating or revising a bus route for general use is at least a "public use." The particular outrage of this case is that the property's really being taken for private use, on the theory that this private use will bring in more tax (public) money.
Apparently, there's nothing qualitatively new about this outrage. If memory serves, the New York Times company got property for a new building in New York City by way of a similar taking, except that the victims were businesspeople.
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Date: 2005-06-24 05:45 pm (UTC)Actually, the T probably always could take our property for a bus route--or, at least, the city or the state could. (I'm unclear just what kind of entity the T is.) Creating or revising a bus route for general use is at least a "public use." The particular outrage of this case is that the property's really being taken for private use, on the theory that this private use will bring in more tax (public) money.
Apparently, there's nothing qualitatively new about this outrage. If memory serves, the New York Times company got property for a new building in New York City by way of a similar taking, except that the victims were businesspeople.