Federal judge in Hawaii halts Trump travel ban. President Trump's revised travel ban was put on hold Wednesday by a federal judge in Hawaii just hours before it was set to take effect after hearing arguments that the executive order discriminates on the basis of nationality.
Locke says individuals have a duty to respect the property (and lives and liberties) of others even in the state of nature, a duty he traces to natural law. Natural law and natural rights coexist, but natural law is primary, commanding respect for the rights of others.
In the United States, the right to own private property is fundamental. The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution restricts the government's use of power to seize private property by guaranteeing that private property will not be taken unless required for the greater public good, and that only with just compensation to the owner. The power of eminent domain is a fundamental and necessary attribute of sovereignty. It