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No. The revolver comment was not off topic. It was used to show that a court can ban it despite what the actual 2A says just like in 2015 when they applied personal property to private property in contrast to what the 5A actually says. My point is that the “government” SCOTUS in this case skewed the 5A to benefit themselves and give more power to the government despite what the 5A limits them to and despite previous SCOTUS decisions on the topic at hand regarding the seizing of property.The off topic is the revolver comment.
Who does the Takings Clause protect ?
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Takings clause applies to personal property, SCOTUS rules in 'major blow' to set-aside programs
BY DEBRA CASSENS WEISS
JUNE 22, 2015, 9:23 AM CDT
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the Fifth Amendment’s takings clause requires the government to pay compensation for takings of personal property.
The court ruled in the case of raisin producers contesting a government set-aside program. SCOTUSblog calls the decision (PDF) “a major blow to government’s program of trying to boost prices by keeping crops off the market.”
Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote the majority opinion, which was joined in full by Justices Antonin Scalia, Anthony M. Kennedy, Clarence Thomas and Samuel A. Alito Jr. Three other justices agreed that the set-aside program was a taking, but disagreed on valuation.
The government’s duty to pay just compensation applies to personal property as well as real property, Roberts said. “The government has a categorical duty to pay just compensation when it takes your car, just as when it takes your home,” Roberts wrote.
The principle goes back at least 800 years to the Magna Carta, which specifically protected agricultural crops from uncompensated takings, Roberts said.
The raisin set-aside program required a percentage of each grower’s crop to be physically set aside in certain years “for the account of” the government, without payment to the growers. The government then sells or disposes of the raisins with the goal of stabilizing raisin prices. The reserve requirement, Roberts said, “is a clear physical taking. Actual raisins are transferred from the growers to the government. Title to the raisins passes to the Raisin Committee.”
The Raisin Committee disposes of set-aside raisins in several ways, including overseas sales and donations to charities. Any profits are given back to raisin producers. Though growers retain this “contingent interest” in the raisins, there is still a physical taking requiring compensation, Roberts said.
So the Government takes personal property they have to paid compensation why because...
But the text of the Takings Clause doesn’t distinguish between personal property and real property. It says that “private property [shall not be] taken for public use, without just compensation.” This is hardly surprising. One of the primary evils the Founders sought to curtail when drafting the Takings Clause was the Continental Army’s practice of taking private property to supply soldiers during the war. Personal property, such as food and clothing, were probably some of the most desirable targets for an army on the move. In light of this history, it is illogical to suggest that the Takings Clause protects only real property.
The Takings Clause was born from the Magna Carter but you and SCOTUS from 2015 want to ignore that. Anything to give the government more power is good for you.