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The Cato Institute seeks to broaden the parameters of public policy debate to allow consideration of the traditional American principles of limited government, individual liberty, free markets and peace. Toward that goal, the Institute strives to achieve greater involvement of the intelligent, concerned lay public in questions of policy and the proper role of government.
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				<title>Forfeiture Laws, the War on Drugs, and Alvarez v. Smith (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10635</link>
				<description><![CDATA[Today, the Supreme Court hears Alvarez v. Smith, an important case that will affect the constitutional property rights of many people around the country but has failed to attract the attention as it deserves.

In Alvarez, the federal Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that it was unconstitutio...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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				<title>Eroding Constitutional Limits on Governmental Takings (Commentary)</title>
				<link>http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=10355</link>
				<description><![CDATA[It's not easy for a judge to undermine property rights further than the Supreme Court did in 2005 in Kelo v. City of New London. But Judge Sonia Sotomayor, now herself up for the Court, succeeded. In the 2006 case of Didden v. Village of Port Chester she signed on to perhaps the worst federal court ...]]></description>
				<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 00:00:00 EDT</pubDate>
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