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In her stinging dissent, Justice Sandra Day O’Connor validated the danger when she wrote, “The specter of condemnation hangs over all property. Nothing is to prevent the state from replacing any Motel 6 with a RitzCarleton, any home with a shopping mall, or any farm with a factory.”

Action is needed, now. Our homes and businesses depend on it. In this election year, our voters should demand that those they vote for support legislation to strictly limit the use of eminent domain here in the birthplace of individual freedom.

Geoffrey F. Segal is Director of Privatization and Government Reform Policy at the highly respected and nationally acclaimed Reason Foundation in Los Angeles. He is also the Senior Fellow for Government Reform for the Thomas Jefferson Institute for Public Policy — the leading non-partisan public policy foundation in Virginia.

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