Ask an Attorney: When Can They Take My Property?

As part of LRI's video series "Ask an Attorney," Alexander Haberbush talks about so-called "eminent domain" and government power to seize property.

"Government is instituted to protect property of every sort." -- James Madison

"In vain may it be urged, that the good of the individual ought to yield to that of the community... Besides, the public good is in nothing more essentially interested, than in the protection of every individual's private rights, as modelled by the municipal law. " -- William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England

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Read more on the federal power to take land at https://fedsoc.org/commentary/publications/did-the-constitution-grant-the-federal-government-eminent-domain-power-using-eighteenth-century-law-to-answer-constitutional-questions