i need answer last line in paragraph question .......eminent domain and condemn

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.......eminent domain and condemn the farmhouse should be recommend.........? why or why not

Shortcut Bruce Carson's civil engineering firm has a contract with the state to specify the route of a new road connecting two major cities. Bruce determines that the shortest workable path will save 20 minutes from what would otherwise be a 2-hour trip, but it would require the state to destroy a farmhouse that has been in the Jones family for 150 some idea of what it would cost the state to purchase their home and the land immediately surrounding it. Not surprisingly, the prospect of losing the home their family has maintained for the past 150 years is very upsetting to the family. "What is 20 minutes compared to 150 years of family tradition? objects Robert Jones, who has lived in the farmhouse the entire 63 years of his life. The family insists that no amount of money would tempt them to sell their home to the state. or to anyone eise for th years. Bruce visits the Jones family to got at matter. Bruce knows that one option would be for the state to exercise eminent domain and condemn the farmhouse. Should he recommend this to the state? Why or why not?

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The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution states, “nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation” creating the concept of eminent domain as a fixture of American progress.

But for well funtioning of democracy in country,it is the tool that the property may be taken either for government use or by third parties through legislative delegation of the taking power, when those parties are authorized to use it for public or civic uses or, in some cases, for economic development..

Without eminent domain you wouldn't have Washington DC, The Brooklyn Bridge, The Johnson Space Center, New Orleans, The Golden Gate Bridge, Rock Creek National Park, Shenandoah National Park, Mammoth Cave National Park, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, and almost every major airport, railroad and highway in the United States.

In this case also you as civil engineer should look forward the better progress of the society as a whole not as indivual attached with emotion, hence farmhouse should be condemned

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