Property Rights and Eminent Domain

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Environmentalism and Property Rights -- The Land-Use Battleground -- Environmentalism: The Battle over Who Should Control the Land -- The Eminent Domain Power: How Innocuous Is It? -- The Police Power Run Amuck -- 2. The Genesis and Development of the Eminent Domain and Police Powers -- The Sovereign's Power of Eminent Domain -- The Police Power: Its Early Life and Peculiar Development -- Zoning and Land Use: "What Can I Build and Where Can I Build It?" -- Conclusion -- 3. The Right to Private Property: Does it Exist? Where Does It Come From? Is Absolutism Defensible? -- The Problem -- Property Theories and Property Defenses -- Can a Natural Right to Property be Defended? -- 4. Conclusion: Resolving the Constitutional Muddle -- The State: Its Derivation and Limits -- Eminent Domain and Police Power: Ideal World -- Eminent Domain and Police Power: Real World -- Real World: Summation -- Index of Legal Cases -- General Index