eminent domain

Examples of eminent domain in the following topics:

• Preamble

  • Substantively, the case was about eminent domain.
  • The City of Grand Rapids wanted to use eminent domain to force landowners to sell property in the city identified as "blighted", and convey the property to owners that would develop it in ostensibly beneficial ways: in this case, to St.
  • This area of substantive constitutional law is governed by the Fifth Amendment, which is understood to require that property acquired via eminent domain must be put to a "public use".

• Introduction to the Rules of the Game

  • Whether a society emphasizes the use of exchange, reciprocity or eminent domain to allocate resources, "Any economic system requires a set of rules, an ideology to justify them, and a conscience in the individual which makes him strive to carry them out" (Robinson, p 13).

• Institutions and Costs

  • In the case of eminent domain, there are costs (opportunity costs) to the authority that defines and enforces the transfer of ownership of goods (property rights).
  • Individuals who are affected by eminent domain incur costs as well.
  • Social institutions and organizations are a social response to reduce the costs of exchange and eminent domain.

• The Potential of Urban Revitalization

  • This process is called "eminent domain," or the process through which the government acquires private property for the larger public good.
  • The process of eminent domain requires that the government provide due compensation but does not necessarily require the private property owner's consent.

• Ratification of the Constitution

  • Amendment 5: Details the concepts of indictments, due process, self-incrimination, double jeopardy, and rules for eminent domain.

• Allocative Mechanisms

  • There are a number of allocative mechanisms, these include; exchange, reciprocity, eminent domain, philanthropy, inheritance and theft.
  • Eminent domain is a redistribution of private property rights through the authority of some organization.
  • Usually the process of eminent domain is legitimized by government, religion or some other authority.

• Microeconomics

  • Reciprocity, philanthropy, theft and eminent domain are processes that societies may use for the allocation of resources and goods.
  • Eminent domain is a form of command enforced by an authority.

• Fair Value Method

  • A property sale, in lieu of an eminent domain taking, would not be considered a fair market transaction since one of the parties (i.e., the seller) was under undue pressure to enter into the transaction.

• Buchanan's Waiting Game

  • South Carolina declared its secession on December 20, 1860, followed by six other slave states; by February 1861, they had formed the Confederate States of America and declared eminent domain over federal property within their states.

• Religious Divide in the Holy Roman Empire

  • These states employed relatively large mercenary armies, and the war became less about religion and more of a continuation of the France–Habsburg rivalry for European political pre-eminence.
  • The war began when the newly elected Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand II, tried to impose religious uniformity on his domains, forcing Roman Catholicism on its peoples.
  • The Austrian domain was thus a major European power in its own right, ruling over some eight million subjects.
  • The Peace established the principle Cuius regio, eius religio ("Whose realm, his religion"), which allowed Holy Roman Empire's states' princes to select either Lutheranism or Catholicism within the domains they controlled, ultimately reaffirming the independence they had over their states.