To: 4ConservativeJustices
The United States Government can indeed confiscate assets used to support any rebellion, whether of Confederates then or some Islamic militants now.
As for the 14th amendment, it referred to debts of the Confederacy or rebel state governments incurred to support the rebellion, not to private debts.
1,089 posted on
07/01/2003 9:00:42 PM PDT by
Grand Old Partisan
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To: Grand Old Partisan
The United States Government can indeed confiscate assets used to support any rebellion, whether of Confederates then or some Islamic militants now. See the 5th Amendment. It was decided well before the WONA by SCOTUS that seized property must be renumerated.
1,114 posted on
07/02/2003 4:33:27 AM PDT by
4CJ
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