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…covenants, which have as their purpose the exclusion of persons of designated race or color from the ownership or occupancy of real property. Basic constitutional issues of obvious importance have been raised. The first of these cases comes to this Court on certiorari to the Supreme Court of Missouri. On February 16, 1911,…

…that "the extent of the diminution" in value is critical. 260 U. S., at 413. Later cases confirmed that when the owner of real property has been called upon to sacrifice all economically beneficial uses in the name of the common good, he has suffered a taking. See Agins , supra , at 261; Nollan v. California Coastal…

…for purposes of that rule, where individuals are given a permanent and continuous right to pass to and fro, so that the real property may continuously be traversed, even though no particular individual is permitted to station himself permanently upon the premises.[^maj-1] JUSTICE BRENNAN argues that while this might…

…by legislation and precedent. While the power of this Court, as the interpreter of the Constitution to determine what use of real property by the owner makes that property subject, at will, to the reasonable practice of religious exercises by strangers, cannot be doubted, we find nothing in the principles of the First…