Both aspects are now by-passed. Since the Russo-Japanese War, however, the U. S. has been extensively involved in balance of power politics. Eighth, interventionism with respect to property has become the rule rather than the exception. In various ways and by many federal agencies, property is subjected to federal intervention daily. One such instance is urban renewal.
Urban renewal condemns private property for private use.
The values it represents are spiritual as well as physical, esthetic as well as monetary. Urban renewal, by taking property from some for the profit of others, has thus been conducive to the oligarchic development, which the founding fathers feared. The basis of this change from non-interventionism to interventionism in constitutional theory is a sociological approach to the Constitution. Its original intent is supplanted by present demands. In terms of this new mode of interpretation, it has been repeatedly noted, we are less and less under the Constitution and increasingly under the Supreme Court.