Reply #2: Once upon a time, there was this quaint old document

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It said, among other things, that no person should be deprived of property without due process of law or have his property taken for public use without just compensation.

It was a rather nice old document, and I kind of liked it. Spelled out a lot of things about what it meant to live in the United States of America. I think public officials even swore an oath about protecting, preserving and defending it upon taking office, so it was kind of a big fucking deal back in the day. I wonder what ever happened to it?