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True, but that's not actually the principle on which eminent domain as an inherent function of sovereignty is built. It's not that all property ultimately belongs to the government, it's that the government has ultimate authority over its territory. This is something of a semantic point, but...

You say that as if eminent domain was some dangerous new liberal concept in government. Eminent domain is one of the inherent powers that define a sovereign government, which is one of the many reasons that even when the United States made a radical break away from traditional monarchy, the...