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by klyrs 1618 days ago
Yes, and upon assuming a seat of power, I think it's reasonable to expect a politician and their close confidantes to divest of their ties to the market that the politician wields undue power over. As in, they can sell it, on the open market. Nobody's property is being taken with undue compensation. Unless they violate the law, and then it's subject to ordinary forfeiture of assets used in the commission of a crime.
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I'm not arguing whether it is a good idea or not, I was responding to the request for where those property rights were in the Constitution.

As for the applicability of those rights to specific issues, that's up to the courts, which have a record of creative interpretations to do whatever they want to.