A Supreme Court decision that concessions of this sort were unconstitutional would have taken them off the table and actually increased the effective sovereignty of elected officials.
Michael Kinsley
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Almost any government activity can also be seen as taking property without just compensation. The basic model of an unconstitutional taking would be if the government threw you out of your house.
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If sexual intercourse, as the poets tell us, began in 1963, it was another decade and a half before the American political system began to take notice.
- Michael Kinsley