The 1833 case of Barron v.Baltimore revolved around the city of Baltimore's deprivation of

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The case of Barron v. Baltimore dealt with the question of whether the Fifth Amendment's guarantee of just compensation for private property taken for public use applied to state governments as well as to the federal government. The Court ruled that the Fifth Amendment only applied to the federal government and not to state governments, thus, Baltimore did not have to compensate Barron for the taking of his property.

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