# Re-Release: It Hits Home **URL:** **By** Tess Terrible **Published:** December 31, 2019 --- It goes to the core of what is meaningful to people. Their family, their home, their livelihood - eminent domain has the power to destroy all of that. This episode is a re-release of [Episode 3 from Season One of the Pursuit](https://www.libertarianism.org/podcasts/the-pursuit/3-it-hits-home). Government, big or small, really does impact people’s lives. And more than that, it sets the tone about what people believe they can do about their own lives. And when government makes people feel as though it’s untrustworthy or the individual is unempowered, in democracy, that’s bad. In our system, it really needs to be a system of laws and not just of people exerting power. Image Credit: Institute for Justice