Property Rights and Eminent Domain

We must stop special interests from violating property rights and literally driving families from their homes, farms and ranches.

Currently, we face a new threat of widespread eminent domain actions because of powerful interests who want to build a NAFTA superhighway through the United States from Mexico to Canada.

We also face yet another danger in regulatory takings: Through excess regulation, governments deprive property owners of significant value and use of their properties - all without paying "just compensation."

Property rights serve as the very foundation of all rights in a free society. Without the right to own a printing press, for example, freedom of the press becomes meaningless. The next president must denounce these schemes and adjourn federal agencies from denying property owners their constitutional rights to life, liberty, and property.