The supreme court, of michigan, hands down Poletown Neighborhood Council v. Detroit, declaring as lawful—under the fraudulent 14th amendment—the seizure of an urban neighborhood that is admitted by all parties not to be blighted, and turning it over to General Motors for an automobile plant, as an acceptable “public use.”
NOTE: This is a direct violation of the state’s constitution of 1963, article X, section 2, “Private property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation therefor [sic] being first made or secured in a manner prescribed by law. Compensation shall be determined in proceedings in a court of record.”
Postscript: Within four years The City Council of Detroit learned that the unique ethnic quality that was Poletown could not be replaced, and the automobile plant did not provide the anticipated economic “public” benefit.
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“Law of the Jungle”
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References:
Poletown Neighborhood Council v. Detroit, 304 N.W.2d 455, 410 Mich. 616 (1981).
Robert A. Levy and William Mellor, The Dirty Dozen: How twelve Supreme Court cases radically expanded government and eroded freedom, (New York: Sentinel, 2008), 157-58.
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