Property rights at the Supreme Court

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🗓️ 16 March 2017

⏱️ 56 minutes

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David Breemer of the Pacific Legal Foundation and John Echeverria of Vermont Law School discuss the issues in a big case about the Fifth Amendment's Takings Clause. Continue today’s conversation on Facebook and Twitter using @ConstitutionCtr. Sign up to receive Constitution Weekly, our email roundup of constitutional news and debate, at bit.ly/constitutionweekly. Please subscribe to We the People and our companion podcast, Live at America’s Town Hall, on iTunes, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app. We the People is a member of Slate’s Panoply network. Check out the full roster of podcasts at Panoply.fm. Despite our congressional charter, the National Constitution Center is a private nonprofit; we receive little government support, and we rely on the generosity of people around the country who are inspired by our nonpartisan mission of constitutional debate and education. Please consider becoming a member to support our work, including this podcast. Visit constitutioncenter.org to learn more. This show was engineered by Jason Gregory and produced by Nicandro Iannacci. Research was provided by Lana Ulrich. The host of We the People is Jeffrey Rosen. Special thanks to Tom Donnelly for hosting this week.

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0:00.0	I'm Tom Donnelly, Senior Fellow for Constitutional Studies at the National Constitution
0:07.8	Center and welcome to We The People, a weekly show of constitutional debate.
0:12.4	Jeffrey Rosen is away this week.
0:14.0	The National Constitution Center is the only institution in America,
0:18.0	chartered by Congress to disseminate information about the U.S. Constitution
0:21.0	on a nonpartisan basis.
0:23.6	This week we explore the off-overlooked clause of the Constitution, the Takings Clause, which
0:28.4	concludes the Fifth Amendment.
0:30.2	It reads, nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.
0:35.8	On March 20th, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Murr v Wisconsin, an important
0:41.0	takings case. Joining me to discuss the best arguments in the Merck case
0:45.2	and the broader history and meaning of the takings clause
0:47.4	are two of America's leading experts
0:49.6	on takings and property rights.
0:51.7	John Acheveria is professor of law at Vermont law school. and property
0:53.0	and a public law at Vermont law school,
0:55.0	where he teaches property, public law,
0:57.0	and a wide range of environmental and natural resource law
1:00.0	courses.
1:01.0	He also filed an amicus brief in this case on behalf of the state of
1:04.0	Wisconsin. David Bremer is senior attorney in the Property Rights
1:08.3	Practice Group at the Pacific Legal Foundation, where he is heavily
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