The term eminent domain describes the
A) power of the government to take private property for public use.
B) right of individuals not to have their private property taken by the government.
C) power of the Supreme Court to declare the meaning and scope of all civil liberties.
D) power of the federal government to seize land owned and managed by the states.
E) power of state governments to ignore a law enacted by the federal government.
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