Private Property and the Constitution

by Bruce A. Ackerman

Book Overview

The proper construction of the compensation clause of the Constitution has emerged as the central legal issue of the environmental revolution, as property owners have challenged a steady stream of environmental statutes that have cut deeply into traditional notions of property rights. When may they justly demand that the state compensate them for the sacrifices they are called upon to make for the common good? Ackerman argues that there is more at...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300022379
• ISBN13: 9780300022377
• Release Date: September 1978
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 311 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.2" x 8.0"