Not So Private Property?: Clean Water Restoration Act Raises Fears of Land Grab

Fox News
December 14, 2009

[efoods]Upwards of 40 percent of all land in the United States is already under some form of government control or ownership — 800 million to 900 million acres out of America’s total 2.2 billion acres.

The government now appears poised to wield greater control over private property on a number of fronts. The battle over private property rights has intensified since 2005, when the Supreme Court ruled in the Kelo v. City of New London case that the government could take property from one group of private landowners and give it to another.

Outraged over that ruling and a series of recent efforts by government to wield greater control over private property, citizens are fighting back. Fox News’ Shannon Bream takes a fair and balanced look at the controversy in a three-part series.

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