A municipality wants to build a water treatment facility, and requires some privately owned land to do so. What procedure enables the municipality to buy the property, even against the owner's wishes?
The procedure that allows for this is known as Eminent Domain. This allows for the municipality (government) to take private property and convert it into public use if and only if they provide just compensation to the property owners. This procedure is protected/provided by the Fifth Amendment and allows the government to do so even if the property owner does not want to relinquish ownership.
