Dead Is Dead: Drone-Killing the Fifth Amendment
Category: POLITICS
Looking back on the violations of justice that characterized British rule in pre-Constitutional America, it is easy to see the Founders' intent in creating the Fifth Amendment. A government's ability to inflict harm on its people, whether by taking their lives, imprisoning them, or confiscating their property, was to be checked by due process.
By Peter Van Buren, ContributorAuthor of the forthcoming "Hooper's War," "Ghosts of Tom Joad:..., 2014-07-24