Politics of Property

Map Branches

• A human right?
  • Everyone MUST have property
  • Everyone MAY have property
  • Everyone can KEEP their property
• Constitutional Protection
  • Magna Carta (1215)
  • USA Constitution (1789)
  • FRA Decl. of Rights of Man (1789)
  • Universal Decl. of Human Rights (1948)
  • EUR Conv. on Human Rights (1950)
  • CAN Bill of Rights (1960)
  • NA Free Trade Agreement (1992)
  • CAN Charter of Rights & Freedoms (1982)
• USA
  • Penn Coal v. Mahon 1922, USSC
    • May be regulated but not too far
    • Mining restrictions went too far
  • Lucas v. South Carolina 1992, USSC
    • Physical taking or economically idle
    • Too far?
      • Physical instrusion
      • Economically idle
• CAN
  • Mariner 1999, NS CA
    • Facts & Issues
      • Beaches Act
        • Needed permit but denied
      • Expropriation Act
        • Regulatory taking?
    • Cromwell J.A.
      • Takings = ALL sticks in the bundle?
      • Corresponding acquisition by govt?
  • CPR v. Vancouver 2006, SCC
    • Facts & Issues
      • CPR corridor unused lately
      • City bylaw limited uses
      • Regulatory taking?
    • McLachlin C.J.
      • No beneficial acquisition
      • No economic deprivation
      • City bylaws deemed not "takings"
• NAFTA
  • Article 1110
    • No expropriation
  • Metalclad 2000, Arb.
    • Regulations/decrees were takings
  • Ethyl Corp., RJR Reynolds, Philip Morris ...

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