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I'm not saying the government shouldn't be held accountable, merely that the due process clause of the 14th amendment is the wrong vehicle. The right to due pro
by jack_h 19d ago
I'm not saying the government shouldn't be held accountable, merely that the due process clause of the 14th amendment is the wrong vehicle. The right to due process in the case of deprivation of life does not mean any deprivation of life such as due to accident or negligence. It's more about the state executing you for a crime. Engineering a way to get rid of people would just be murder, there's no get out of jail free card there.
The preamble isn't a source of any substantive power.
- alexgieg 18d agoOn the first point, shouldn't the government officials who deliberately withheld the information they had of the water containing lead be prosecuted for attempted murder then? On the second, why did they write it then? Just because they felt like it, while fully knowing it to be meaningless?