Their Constitutional Rights Violated By Authorities

Investor's Business Daily ^ | July 16, 2013 | IBD EDITORIALS

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Bill Of Rights: A Nevada family files a lawsuit after police literally seize their house to use as a command post after entering without a warrant and assaulting family members. Isn't this what helped start the American Revolution?

For those who snoozed through civics class, recent news events have provided an education on the U.S. Constitution, the bedrock of American democracy, assaulted by an administration that views it as obstructionist and irrelevant and by courts that view it as a "living document" — which is to say it means whatever they say it means on any given day.

The contraceptive mandate within ObamaCare has assaulted the Constitution's freedom of religion guarantee in the First Amendment, for one. It has shredded the First Amendment again by confiscating the Associated Press' records and authorizing a warrant branding Fox News reporter James Rosen a traitor.

We have also learned about the Fifth Amendment, the one that IRS exempt-organizations chief Lois Lerner invoked to protect her right against self-incrimination — for trampling on that same right of others.

This administration has also shredded the 10th Amendment principle of federalism, again through ObamaCare, which forces states to do what they don't want to do under powers they don't think the feds have.

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I hope attention to this does not fade.

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