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.
To: Free the USA
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. The fourteenth is the only one that mentions a restriction on any type of government, specifically the state. The fifth mentions no type of government, but only the freedoms and rights that the federal government has been charged to protect. One of those is life. I've read plenty of books on Constitutional law, not all of which agree with each other. Therefore I've resorted to the fairly unsophisticated practice of recognizing that "is" means "is." In other words, "No person shall...be deprived..." means just that, and not, "Government shall not deprive anyone..." etc. The idea that we need alleged scholars to tell us what the Constitution means when its language is clear is an affront to the entire concept of self-government
To: Free the USA
I really shouldn't be helping you with this, but if you want to make an argument of what the Constitution does or doesn't say, I'd make it on the grounds of what it means to be afforded "due process of law."
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