STEPHENS, Judge.
"[T]he security of Property[,]" Alexander Hamilton informed the Philadelphia Convention in May of 1787, is one of the "great objects] of Gov[ernment.]" 1 The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787 302 (Max Farrand ed.1911). Accordingly, the United States Constitution provides that "private property [shall not] be taken for public use, without just compensation." U.S. Const. amend. V.
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