In the coming months the u.s. supreme court will issue two critical rulings on property rights, which are the bedrock of a vibrant, free-enterprise economy. They are rooted in the principle of equality before the law, whereby the least of us can be protected from the most powerful. This is what enables an entrepreneur to start a business—not to mention create a whole new industry— that may challenge existing powerful business entities and not have it effectively seized or gobbled up by those already-existing big corporations. Under our Constitution the government can't seize what you own (even while providing "fair market" compensation) unless it is for a public project, such as constructing a highway.
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