Eminent domain
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Eminent domain, also known as land acquisition, compulsory purchase, resumption, compulsory acquisition, or expropriation, is the compulsory acquisition of private property for public use. It does not
The construction of the Three Gorges Dam in China led to the displacement of over 1.3 million people, highlighting the potential social and environmental costs of large-scale development projects using eminent domain.
Espropria, "expropriate", protest graffiti in Turin
Right to property
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The right to property, or the right to own property, is often classified as a human right for natural persons regarding their private property. The Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution i
John Locke's 1689 Two Treatises of Government in which Locke calls "lives, liberties and estates" the "property" of individuals
