Tentative Thesis: City government should have the power to use eminent domain and turn the seized properties over to private developers, as long as it is good for the public as a whole.
Explain: My original thesis was something to do with term limit enforcement on all Senators and Representatives of the Congress of the United States of America. I started doing research and found that most of the links I wanted to try and use were inactive or expired. I started working on a couple other ideas for the paper but none of them had enough research behind them for them to resonate well enough for a good paper. These ideas included the ethics of using Medical Marijuana to treat young children suffering from forms of autism (would have asked permission), and the use of electronic cigarettes as a "safer" alternative to the real thing. We ended up talking about eminent domain in my URBS 100 class and I noticed how conflicted the room became with peoples differing opinions. I worked out a problem within the idea of eminent domain that was controversial, turning seized properties over to private developers. I found a case study done by Gregory S. Ramirez, published in Creighton Law Review, about the choice of a city to turn over land to the Texas Rice Land Partners, and how they planned to use the land unethically based on the law of eminent domain. I also remembered something a friend told me about Pfizer doing something similar but they actually benefited the community so I intend to find a source for that.
Sources:
Ramirez, Gregory S. "Texas Rice Land Partners, LTD. V.
Denbury green pipeline-Texas, LLC: A probability of future use by the public as
a key to exercising eminent domain."Creighton Law Review 41.1
(2012): 89-114. Web. 26 Mar. 2013.
Mears, Bill.
"Supreme Court Examines Limits of City's Eminent Domain Powers." CNN.com.
CNN, 23 Feb. 2005. Web. 26 Mar. 2013.
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