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Justices Amended Constitution on Their Own: I believe that the position on this reading is Conservative. Mr. Kilpatrick mocks the meaning of the words "public use". He states that the supreme court justices have a distorted view of "public use". That the government should not take peoples houses away to erect shops and stores to stimulate local economy.

By Letting Redevelopers Take Little Guys Property: This reading is definitely conservative. The writer states, "The underlying liberal vision was that private property was the instrument of individuals of privilege and power, which had to be cut down to size by an alert legislature that had the interests of the little man at heart".

He stipulates that government is corrupt and that the rich only have their own interest in mind.

More than Abortion Is at Stake is Supreme Court Picks: This reading seems democratic, the writer refers to the republicans as foes of women's rights. That they show tunnel vision.
He gives examples like: A report by the liberal People for for the American Way foundation, documents how President Bush has picked lawyers and judges who favor a pre-New Deal approach to the Constitution: An era when property rights and states right were given weight than protecting individual rights, and when the courts forbade Congress to address urgent issues of poverty and health care.

Losing Our Country: Mr. Krugman seems to be taking more democratic approach to this reading. He states Since 1980 in particular, the U.S. government policies have consistently favored the wealthy at the expense of working families-and the under the current administration, that favoritism has become extreme and relentless.
That the middle class is being exterminated and that people the rich are always supported and the middle class is punished for being unlucky.