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When the government takes private property to build a bridge or highway, the owner must be justly compensated for the inconvenience. The Constitution guarantees this. But what about when excessive government regulation and a slow-grinding legal process blocks you from building on your land or makes it virtually impossible to develop your property? Thousands of people become such bureaucratic casualties daily. What accountability and compensation are you entitled to when you've been wronged by the government? Grand Theft and Petit Larceny reveals the gradual undermining of the rights of property owners in the 20th century - in direct opposition to what the Framers of the Constitution fought hard to gain - and how continuing on this course will be fundamentally disastrous for us all, property owner and non-property owner alike. As horror stories about regulatory confiscation of land in the name of protecting endangered species, wetlands, and other purposes have mounted, fresh attention is being paid to the "takings" clause of the Constitution. In recent years the U.S. Supreme Court has been moving, albeit slowly and hesitantly, to restore a wider applicability of the Fifth Amendment

Author

Pollot, Mark L., 1950-

Publisher

San Francisco, Calif.: Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9780936488448

Subjects

Law, Political Science