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Example sentences for: takings

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The takings clause forces taxpayers to share in the cost of any taking, and so ensures that frivolous takings will meet broad opposition.
That wisdom underlies the "takings clause" in the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution, which says, in effect, that the government can't take your front lawn and turn it into a park without paying you for it.