Plan of Chicago: Prepared Under the Direction of the Commercial Club During the Years MCMVI, MCMVII, and MCMVIII, Part 1 |
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Plan of Chicago: Prepared Under the Direction of the Commercial Club, During ... Daniel Hudson Burnham No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 145 - When the use is public, the necessity or expediency of appropriating any particular property is not a subject of judicial cognizance.
Page 152 - ... provide for the collection of a direct annual tax sufficient to pay the interest on such debt as it falls due, and also to pay and discharge the principal thereof within twenty years from the time of contracting the same.
Page 148 - Amendment it is provided that no state shall deprive any person of property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. That corporations are persons within the meaning of this amendment is now settled. What amounts to deprivation of property without due process of law...
Page 142 - The right of eminent domain, that is, the right to take private property for public uses, appertains to every independent government . It requires no constitutional recognition ; it is an attribute of sovereignty.
Page 149 - The determination of this question by the courts has been influenced in the different States by considerations touching the resources, the capacity of the soil, the relative importance of industries to the general public welfare, and the long-established methods and habits of the people. In all these respects conditions vary so much in the States and Territories of the Union that different results might well be expected.
Page 144 - ... use of another. It is in violation of natural right ; and if it is not in violation of the letter of the constitution, it is of its spirit, and cannot be supported. This power has been supposed to be convenient when the greater part of a lot is taken, and only a small part left, not required for public use, and that small part of but little value in the hands of the owner. In such case the corporation...
Page 142 - In view of the adjudications these principles must be regarded as settled : " 1. A railroad corporation is a person within the meaning of the fourteenth amendment declaring that no state shall deprive any person of property without due process of law, nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
Page 150 - ... and after the establishment, layout, and completion of such improvements, may convey any such real estate thus acquired and not necessary for such improvements, with reservations concerning the future use and occupation of such real estate, so as to protect such public works and improvements, and their environs, and to preserve the view, appearance, light, air, and usefulness of such public works.
Page 142 - In the memory of men now living a proposition to take private property without the consent of its owner for a public park, and to assess a proportionate part of the cost upon real estate benefited thereby, would have been regarded as a novel exercise of legislative power.
Page 143 - Their value is enhanced by such touches of art as help to produce pleasing and satisfactory effects on the emotional and spiritual side of our nature. Their influence should be uplifting, and, in the highest sense, educational. If wisely planned and properly cared for, they promote the mental as well as the physical health of the people.