Eminent Domain Case Study

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On the surface, eminent domain is a productive style of acquiring property for public use. However, instituting eminent domain leads society into an economic decline. The action of legally buying over property for public use destroys more economic value than created by robbing minorities and the poor who are politically weak and undermine the economy. Eminent Domain cheats property owners out of land for “public use”. While attempting to promote economic development and transfer communities for the benefit of the people, minorities and those who are politically weak are targeted as a way to spruce up the economy. In the 1940s urban renewal projects put millions in what were viewed as worst living conditions, “forcibly displaced several million peoplemost of them poor …show more content…
The Kelso case is an exact example of the renewal of property with no negative effects. Property that was in eminent domain went into was no use, the land “remains empty a decade after the Supreme Court decision”(Source C). Nevertheless, the property that was supposed to promote economic development wasn't touched for 10 years after the case was settled. What really was the use of the land with no action for economic reconstruction? Cleary eminent domain is an action of property acquisition that negatively affects the economy rather than beneficially. Undermining the economy is the only true effect of eminent domain. With federal governments power to acquire property for public use to create economic value, it does the opposite. As a federal government, why are powers being implicated that evict society from our constitutional amendments? Undoubtedly with the power they have, eminent domain is passed off as an act of renewing the economy. The “ U.S. Constitution stipulates: “nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation”( Source