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To: Free the USA
or you think that such enabling language is a blank check to pass any type of unrelated law.

Let's see... How do I say this without being offensive? The fifth and fourteenth amendments couldn't possibly be any more related to protecting against murder. An elementary grammatical analysis couldn't make it more clear.

Amendment V
No person shall...be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law...

Article I, Section 8.
"The Congress shall have Power...To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution...all...Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof."

If we cannot agree on plain language and definitions, on what can we agree?

159 posted on 04/22/2002 8:37:01 PM PDT by outlawcam
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To: outlawcam
The Fifth and the Fourteenth discuss the Government Taking action to deny someone their right to life, they have no relation to actions taken by any group or individual operating separately from official government sanctioned action. It requires a real twist of meaning to claim that an individual requesting assistance from his private doctor has any connection to Official State Action. Find any book on Constitutional law and read what the fifth and fourteenth mean.
163 posted on 04/23/2002 2:58:51 AM PDT by Free the USA
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