Before I forget, eminent domain is to knowledge feudal in nature. Aristotelian, atheists oligarchs might have wet dreams over eminent domain. The relation of lawful money to property rights...deep stuff, eh?The legal positivists maintain that eminent domain is “a peculiarly American branch of law” because of the takings clause of the Fifth Amendment, but the roots of this law go back, as does much of American law, to England (Stoebuck 1977, 4, 7–9).2 Indeed, eminent domain reflects the feudal underpinnings of English property law (Paul 1988, 8–9).
Related:
The Evolution of Eminent Domain by Bruce L. Benson;
Standing on the Land (John Joseph, Randy Lee, and Richard Anthony)
P.S. Seems "legal positivists" like to make s.... things up.