{"id":2555,"date":"2005-07-30T15:58:00","date_gmt":"2005-07-30T15:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=2555"},"modified":"2018-02-12T09:38:03","modified_gmt":"2018-02-12T15:38:03","slug":"its-a-constitutional-medley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2005\/07\/30\/its-a-constitutional-medley\/","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s a Constitutional Medley!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, we have &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/agoraphilia.blogspot.com\/2005\/06\/interstate-commerce-blues.html\" target=\"_new\">The Interstate Commerce Blues<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Next, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/exparte.powerblogs.com\/posts\/1119637431.shtml\" target=\"_new\">Kelo (The Banana Court Song)<\/a>&#8220;.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, my contribution, &#8220;Kelo-Backed Seizure&#8221;, which goes something like this:<\/p>\n<p><center><br \/>\n<b>Kelo-Backed Seizure<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The court ruled hard against homeowners&#8217; rights<br \/>\nAcross the country in D.C.<br \/>\nEminent domain is in the eye<br \/>\nOf local governments and their greed<\/p>\n<p>Our house is ours, it holds all our things<br \/>\nOur town doesn\u2019t want it yet<br \/>\nBut if it wants another mall<br \/>\nOr industrial court for someone else&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Kelo-backed seizure<br \/>\nDown the road for more tax base<br \/>\nKelo-backed seizure<br \/>\nThrough enforcement of the law<br \/>\nKelo-backed seizure<br \/>\nOnce it\u2019s started, what will follow?<br \/>\nKelo-backed seizure<br \/>\nAn invention of a blight<\/p>\n<p>When I was young, I thought I could own<br \/>\nA home and land as property<br \/>\nBut on the weight of New Castle\u2019s want <br \/>\nI know now that it\u2019s a dream<\/p>\n<p>Yeah<\/p>\n<p>Kelo-backed seizure<br \/>\nDown the road for more tax base<br \/>\nKelo-backed seizure<br \/>\nThrough enforcement of the law<br \/>\nKelo-backed seizure<br \/>\nOnce it\u2019s started, what will follow?<br \/>\nKelo-backed seizure<br \/>\nAn invention of a blight<\/p>\n<p>No, no, no&#8230;.<br \/>\nNo, no, no&#8230;.<br \/>\nNo, no, no&#8230;.<br \/>\nNo, no, no&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Kelo-backed seizure<br \/>\nDown the road for more tax base<br \/>\nKelo-backed seizure<br \/>\nThrough enforcement of the law<br \/>\nKelo-backed seizure<br \/>\nOnce it\u2019s started, what will follow?<br \/>\nKelo-backed seizure<\/p>\n<p>Down the road for more tax base<br \/>\nThrough enforcement of the law<br \/>\nOnce it&#8217;s started, what will follow?<br \/>\nAn invention of a blight<\/p>\n<p><\/center><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"1\"><i>(Apologies to Mr. Mister, and although it&#8217;s not my fault, I&#8217;d like to apologize for Clay Aiken&#8217;s remake and for Rick Springfield&#8217;s remake of &#8220;Broken Wings&#8221;.  I should really send them a card.)<\/i><\/font><\/p>\n<p>(Other portions of the medley seen on <a href=\"http:\/\/volokh.com\/archives\/archive_2005_07_24-2005_07_30.shtml#1122683978\" target=\"_new\">The Volokh Conspiracy<\/a>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, we have &#8220;The Interstate Commerce Blues&#8220;. Next, &#8220;Kelo (The Banana Court Song)&#8220;. Finally, my contribution, &#8220;Kelo-Backed Seizure&#8221;, which goes something like this: Kelo-Backed Seizure The court ruled hard against homeowners&#8217; rights Across the country in D.C. Eminent domain is in the eye Of local governments and their greed Our house is ours, it holds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2555"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19477,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2555\/revisions\/19477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}