According to this article, studies have shown that legislation passed last year in Missouri has failed to address eminent domain abuse. According to the article, "The study concludes eminent domain abuse has had a negative impact on local communities, adding the abuses will only worsen until the Legislature passes a constitutional amendment strengthening property rights in Missouri."
Sounds like Missouri and North Carolina have something in common: each of our legislatures failed to pass a constitutional amendment to give property owners the protection they deserve, instead settling for watered-down legislation that doesn't cut the mustard.
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State legislatures disinclined to yield up. The above sounds familar.
"In opposition to the probability of subsequent amendments, it has been urged that the persons delegated to the administration of the national government will always be disinclined to yield up any portion of the authority of which they were once possessed."Alexander HAMILTON The Federalist Papers : No. 85
Thomas Jefferson, George Mason, and others wanted a Bill of Rights because they feared that without it these governments would eventually assume our rights did not exist beyond there own laws.JMB.
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