"Protect Our Homes Initiative," Proposition 90, would include significant restrictions on the ability of governments to use eminent domain for economic development purposes and to pass regulations that limit property rights.

Property rights in the United States were vastly eroded after the high court, in a 5-to-4 ruling, declared that local governments can take property from individual owners and give it to other private owners in the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 23, 2005 decision Kelo v. the City of New London (Connecticut). The justices ruled that it’s not the court’s job to “second-guess” cities, declaring that the Fifth Amendment’s requirement that takings be for a “public use” had long been a dead letter.

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