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Thread #56765   Message #893002
Posted By: NicoleC
18-Feb-03 - 04:25 PM
Thread Name: The Decency of the 'Cat
Subject: RE: The Decency of the 'Cat
Ebbie, #3 doesn't apply in wartime. Angary is legal, however, the authors were trying to prevent the kind of military abuses they experienced under British rule, where sometimes the red coats would show up and take over a house for a few weeks of months, pretty much because they felt like it.

But I'd add:
#5 ...nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation. Happening all the time lately. Congress legalized the seizure of property by law enforcement on almost any pretext. Recently in Georgia, over 100,000 dollars ($180,000, I think) in cash was permanently confiscated from two men in a car because they were speeding. The money was legitimately theirs, but it was legal to steal it from them because it was "suspected" of being drug money.

#10 The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. Oh my. Not even close.