Post by standish on Feb 24, 2005 9:21:58 GMT -5
When our antecedents forced Jared Ingersoll, the King's Stamp Act Collector, to resign his commission as such, the townspeople of Wethersfield surrounded him on the Commons with the cry: "Liberty and property!". We fought a revolution over the right to hold private property without continued dispensation from the Monarch. Property rights are so intertwined with every form of liberty described in our founding documents, that eminent domain should only be exercised as the exceptional need rather than the convenient option.
When commoners, the little people, no longer have a stake in the protections afforded by the State, they no longer have a stake in the State itself. Should property rights only accrue to the more successful, such will follow. Let not history repeat itself through this abuse of power. We chose to form a more perfect union.
When commoners, the little people, no longer have a stake in the protections afforded by the State, they no longer have a stake in the State itself. Should property rights only accrue to the more successful, such will follow. Let not history repeat itself through this abuse of power. We chose to form a more perfect union.