single “strand” from the "bundle” of property rights: it chops through the bundle, taking a slice of every strand. [6] 6. This case is frequently abbreviated to First English Church. 7 . We note, however, that in colonial days it was not unusual for governments regularly to take property without compensation. When James Madison authored the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment, its ultimate ratification was a “translation of liberal idealogy into constitutional principle.” William Michael Treanor, The Origins and Original Significance of the Just Compensation Clause of the Fifth Amendment, 94 Yale L.J. 694 (1985). As Treanor explains, the constitutional framers of post-colonial days perceived uncompensated takings as feudal redistributions of private property 143, 60 L.Ed. 348 (1915) (<HOLDING>); Miller v. Schoene, 276 U.S. 272, 277-79, 48
holding that a breach of contract action by the department of health for the commonwealth of puerto rico did not qualify as an exercise of police or regulatory power even if related to the departments general regulatory power holding that an ordinance regulating dredging and pit excavating was a valid exercise of police power wherein it prevented the defendant from further excavation below the water table holding that an exercise by the state of its police power is presumed to be valid when it is challenged under the due process clause of the fourteenth amendment holding that an ordinance passed for the health and comfort of the community that prohibited brickmaking in a designated area was a valid exercise of police power holding that the exercise of police power was valid where an owner was prohibited from operating a liveiy stable business that was not a nuisance per se