Legal Environment 5th Edition by Jeffrey Beatty,Susan Samuelson

Exercise 10

Consider Kelo v. City of New London, in which a city with a revitalization plan squared off against property owners who did not wish to sell their property. The key constitutional provision was the Takings Clause in the ___________ Amendment. The Supreme Court decided the city ____________use eminent domain and take the property from the landowners.
A) Fifth; could
B) Fifth; could not
C) Fourteenth; could
D) Fourteenth; could not