Individuals may have common but cannot have "public" interests. It is therefore no more unjust to take a man's home and evict him therefrom to build a mall than a road.

Conservatives and even "respectable" libertarians have long ago made their peace with the Constitution's "takings" clause which, along with the one about "regulating interstate commerce," only further illustrates the implausibility of "limited government."

Pending the expedient "emergency" that the private interests at the helm of State can easily provide, all now lies in readiness for a legal transition to a franker communism or fascism. All for the "common good," of course.