Maybe it's just me. Maybe I'm too simple-minded to get it. Perhaps because I didn't go to law school, spend years on a judicial bench, and have half a dozen clerks doing all of my research for me, I just don't understand the intricacies and nuances of the Constitution of the United States of America. Or maybe there simply aren't the intricacies and nuances the Supreme Court would have us believe there are. Amendment I of the Bill of Rights says, in part: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion..." Now, I challenge any legal scholar on the planet to explain how a monument to the Ten Commandments, or the posting of the Ten Commandments on the wall of a courtroom, is Congress establishing a state religion. Or even a state government establishing a state religion. Religious aspects aside, the Ten Commandments are an important legal document, important to the legal history of Western civilization. Again, with religious aspects aside, the Ten Commandments contain some pretty healthy codes of conduct for everyone, believers and non-believers. What's wrong with suggesting that people do not steal from one another? Amendment V of the Bill of Rights states, in part: "...nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation." Kelo vs. New London is not about "public use." Public use is a road, a school. Public use is not a new shopping mall, new condos, new office space. I have to disagree with Jeff on this decision; both sides of the Court are not right in their opinions. Simply because there is precedent leading up to the decision in Kelo doesn't make the decision proper. It simply means that all of the precedent is itself unconstitutional. If the Court has, in the past, rejected the "narrow interpretation of the public use requirement," then the Court was wrong. The Court was negligent in its duty to uphold the Constitution, and it was negligent in Kelo. If the town of New London can't come up with enough tax revenue without confiscating people's legally-purchased private property, then perhaps the town should dissolve its charter and let the county take over basic services.