All Posts Tagged With: "Kelo"
BB&T Takes The Moral High Ground
Every so often a large business does something so right — and so moral — that both comments and compliments are deserved, a moment which arose when it was announced that a major bank has decided to forego profits in a voluntary effort to advance the public good.
Based in Winston-Salem, BB&T Corporation is the nation’s [...]
Ohio Court Moves To Protect Homeowners
When last we left off with the Kelo case, arguably the worst Supreme Court decision in decades, Congress and various local governments were promising to legislate a way around a ruling that would let government take your home for virtually no reason at all. But now something more remarkable has happened, the Ohio Supreme court [...]
19Aug2008 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
Will Government Grab Your Home?
“[A] law that takes property from A. and gives it to B: It is against all reason and justice, for a people to entrust a Legislature with such powers; and, therefore, it cannot be presumed that they have done it.” Calder v. Bull, 1798.
Given more than two centuries of public policy it’s difficult to comprehend [...]
19Aug2008 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
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