“”Not that I recognize the 14th Amendment as legitimate”
Of course you don’t. Like Ron Paul, that part of the document is snipped out. Along with the Fifth Amendment, which has the exact same explicit, imperative requirement, that no person in this country shall be deprived of life without a fair trial on a capital offense.”
The 5th only apply’s to the Federal goverment, and the 14th allegedly to the state Governments. You must have overlooked that fact in “reading their text”.
Nether the 5th nor the 14th constitute a law against one civilian killing anther.
"On the other hand, the duty imposed upon him [the president] to take care, that the laws be faithfully executed, follows out the strong injunctions of his oath of office, that he will "preserve, protect, and defend the constitution." The great object of the executive department is to accomplish this purpose; and without it, be the form of government whatever it may, it will be utterly worthless for offence, or defence; for the redress of grievances, or the protection of rights; for the happiness, or good order, or safety of the people."-- Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution, 1833
"Government, in my humble opinion, should be formed to secure and to enlarge the exercise of the natural rights of its members; and every government, which has not this in view, as its principal object, is not a government of the legitimate kind."-- James Wilson, Lectures on Law, 1791