Help Stop Eminent Domain Abuse
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Initiative Petition
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Eminent Domain Abuse
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Help stop eminent domain abuse!
Article I, section 2 of the Missouri Constitution says that government is supposed to “promote the general welfare of the people,” not confer special treatment to the influential.Â? It also says that the “principle office” of Missouri government is to protect our liberties, including our property rights.Â? In spite of these clear mandates, Missouri cities around the state continue to use their power of eminent domain to take private homes and businesses for the personal profit of private developers.
For over two years Missouri Citizens for Property Rights has been working on a ballot initiative to end eminent domain for private gain.Â? They are within sight of their goal of collecting 215,000 signatures by the May 4th deadline.
Their current projections indicate that they still need to make an extra push for the final signatures, though.Â? They’re asking men and women who are 18 or older to spend all or part of the day collecting signatures at the polls this Tuesday.Â? This is easy and rewarding work since 85% to 90% of our fellow Missourians agree on this issue.
Those in the St. Louis, Columbia, or Springfield areas can go to the following locations to pick up materials:
St. Louis (Ballwin) Â? –Â? Monday, April 7th,Â? 6:00 p.m.Â? (A Complementary Mexican buffet will be served.Â? It would be helpful if you sent an email to info@mo-cpr.org to let them know you’re coming, but it is not necessary to r.s.v.p.)
Senor Pique Restaurant
14872 Manchester Rd.
Ballwin, MO 63011Â? Â? Â? Â? Â? Â? Â? Â? Â? Â? Â? Â? Â? Â? Â? (636) 394-3455 (restaurant phone)
Columbia, MO — Saturday, April 5th,Â? 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Boone County Fairground
5212 N Oakland Gravel Rd
Columbia MO, 65202Â? Â? Â? Â? Â? Â? Â? Â? Â? Â? Â? Call Ron at (573) 368-1344 after 9:00 a.m. Saturday for details about where to go.
Springfield / Ozark — Saturday & Sunday, April 5-6th
Contact: Dennis Sparrow
dsparrow@cebridge.netÂ? Â? Â? Â? Â? Â? Â? Â? Â? Â? Â? (417) 299-8190
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If you aren’t sure if you can make it to those locations, please go to www.mo-cpr.org and fill in the Volunteer Form.
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April 9th, 2008 at 9:56 am
I have found no where in my research of our founding fathers, any suggestion ever taken seriously that would claim that a democracy maintained could ever protect every person against public use, while at the same time I have found no reference in our national constitution or any current state constitutions to that of private takings of citizens over citizens to be a freedom granted by our governments over the words of our people, an acceptable liberty.
State Constitutions have a very fluid quality in comparison to our peoples Constitution, with an average of approximately 100 amendments to the constitutions of the fifty states, also some states have rewritten their state constitutions up to as many as eleven times. State constitutions tend to be extremely long and complicated.
Please don’t misunderstand me, I am all for state legislative sovereignty’s and states rights, but this issue of We The People to be secure in our homes is at the very foundations of all of our protections and restrictions we the people placed within our National Constitution. Missouri’s Constitution already demands upon it’s own government, It is the Court’s (general or particular) configuring unto constitutions it’s own predilection’s that violate.
“The authority of constitutions over governments, and of the sovereignty of the people over constitutions, are truths which are at all times necessary to be kept in mind; and at no time, perhaps, more necessary than at present.”-MADISON’S REPORT ON THE VIRGINIA RESOLUTIONS.