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Executive Order 13406: Protecting the Property Rights of the American People

This document appears to say the federal government can’t take private property “merely for the purpose of advancing the economic interest of private parties”, which would seem to preclude federal eminent domain being applied for the Sabal Trail pipeline if its gas is really for export.

Executive Order 13406 of June 23, 2006,
Protecting the Property Rights of the American People,

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to strengthen the rights of the American people against the taking of their private property, it is hereby ordered as follows:

Section 1. Policy. It is the policy of the United States to protect the rights of Americans to their private property, including by limiting the taking of private property by the Federal Government to situations in which the taking is for public use, with just compensation, and for the purpose of benefiting the general public and not merely for the purpose of advancing the economic interest of private parties to be given ownership or use of the property taken. Continue reading Executive Order 13406: Protecting the Property Rights of the American People