What constitutes a "public use" under the Takings Clause?

The Fourteenth Amendment's Section One is central to our constitutional law. Yet its underlying principles remain surprisingly obscure. Its drafting history ... No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person ... The U.S. Senate passed the proposed amendment by the required two-thirds majority on June 8, 1866, and the House of Representatives passed it on June 13, 1866, ... The Fourteenth Amendment is the Mr. Cellophane of originalist writing. Judges, scholars, and ordinary citizens writing or speaking in the originalist tradition ... May 20, 2017 ... This paper argues that preborn human beings are legal “persons” within the original meaning of the Fourteenth Amendment. The race-conscious Reconstruction programs were enacted concurrently with the fourteenth amendment and were supported by the same legislators who favored the ... Nov 9, 2009 ... It states that a two-thirds majority vote in Congress is required to allow public officials who had engaged in rebellion to regain the rights of ... Under the Penalty Clause, states that deny or abridge otherwise qualified citizens' right to vote are penalized with a reduction of their congressional ... Section Two is discriminatory in its nature. One can easily understand why voting rights advocates would be attracted to a Section Two remedy. May 7, 2011 ... In contrast, this Note argues that ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment—which, as the Supreme Court acknowledged in. Fitzpatrick v. Bitzer, ...