Wow, Kim...that's quite an amendment! Seems to me that Stalin and Hitler were able to find literally millions of "duly convicted" persons with very little trouble at all, and I daresay it can be done in the good ol' USA too. Imagine that...carte blanche for establishing the institution of slavery in a nice legal fashion. All that's necessary is to decide that someone has committed a "crime", and that all depends on how you define "crime", doesn't it?

Interestingly enough, a good many Latin American countries have excellent constitutions, modelled pretty closely on the American Constitution, but that has not stopped various dictators in those countries from abrogating every human right and committing every atrocity whenever they wanted to. It's easy when you control the courts, the military, the media, and the law enforcment agencies. And how do you control them? By guns and money.

- LH