 "Ruckelshaus v. Monsanto Co.", 467 U.S. 986 (1984) This maxim rests on the principle that so long as compensation is available for those whose property is in fact taken, the governmental action is not unconstitutional.Less than a decade after the Andrus decision, the Court found there to be a taking when the government took only a single strand of the bundle of property – the right to pass property to one’s heirs.On Indian reservations, property belonging to Native Americans was often fractionated, meaning that with each generation a parcel’s ownership could be divided up between more and more heirs, making it extremely difficult to put the property to economic use.