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- Title
A NOTE ON THE POWER OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT TO CONDEMN FOR HOUSING.
- Authors
SEAKS, ROBERT G.
- Abstract
The article discusses power of the U.S. federal government to condemn for housing. It refers to so-called "spending power" of the Congress which sanctions the national government's extensive program of slum clearance and home construction. It discusses several court cases involving federal condemnation including two lower federal court decisions that sustained the federal power to condemn in aid of reclamation projects. In another case, Supreme Court upheld condemnation of private land. It is commented that eminent domain proceedings have always been subject to the test of "public use."
- Subjects
UNITED States; TAKINGS clause (Constitutional law); ACTIONS &; defenses (Law); LEGAL judgments; LAND use; LEGISLATIVE power; HOUSE construction; GOVERNMENT purchasing of real property; LAW
- Publication
Law & Contemporary Problems, 1934, Vol 1, Issue 2, p232
- ISSN
0023-9186
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/1189568