A while back some dudes called "The Framers" got out a nice blank sheet of HEMP PAPER and wrote this thing called the "U.S. Constitution." In this "Constitution" thing, there is this one part called the "4th amendment" that says that the government can't take property from citizens without a good reason. This means that if the government makes a law outlawing refined sugar ( for example ), the government has to pay all the sugar owners the value of their sugar since the law effectively confiscates private property. [continues 108 words]