1. What is eminent domain, what are the debates concerning the use of it?
Eminent domain or the commons is the legal sanction of land for public use. In recent years, the proliferation of policies in support of public-private partnerships (PPP) ascribing new meaning to investment and private developer role in governance has restated the meaning of subsidies and tax revenues as secondary tier investment in the planning, construction and maintenance of public lands and buildings intended for public use. The support for eminent domain is that governance of public lands is intended to serve the public good as infrastructure or citizen resource. Counter arguments claim that disabuse of eminent domain laws is ...
