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OPINION PIECE
ference by the majority.
Thus, we are all protected in the use of our property from actions by the majority when those actions serve no real public purpose, or when they are not Meaningfully related to that purpose (these protections come from the Due Process clause of the Fifth and Fourteenth amendments). We are also protected from actions which irrationally favor one person over another (the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendement). Finally, we are protected from excessive interference by the majority which leaves us with no economically reasonable use of our property (the protection against “takings” found in the Fifth and Fourteenth amendments).
However, even these guarantees of private rights must be, as the Supreme Court has frequently stated, responsive to the changing circumstances of society. In the two hundred years since some of these guarantees were first written this nation has seen a growth in population and technology which has dramatically magnified . the public impact on the exercise of private rights. I doubt that even Mr. Jefferson could have imagined what one sum could do in an hour with a modern bulldozer. Nor could he have
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