Did you know that the Takings Clause was not called the Takings Clause by any court before 1955? That was the first time that any court of any jurisdiction referred to the provisions regarding takings of private property in either the federal or state constitutions under the label Takings Clause. Did you know that justices of the U.S. Supreme Court did not use the moniker Takings Clause in any opinion before 1978? Given this history, the phrase Takings Clause, whether an apt descriptor or not, certainly cannot be justified as the dominant way to refer to these provisions by contemporaneous usage at the Founding nor by the weight of time. This Article gathers and analyzes originally compiled data sets on the usage of labels for thi...