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No, the Asset Forfieture program came into existence in the 1980s as part of the war on drugs. The USA has only existed for a couple hundred years, and the US
by MCRed 12y ago
No, the Asset Forfieture program came into existence in the 1980s as part of the war on drugs.
The USA has only existed for a couple hundred years, and the US constitution has as amendment 4 a specific prohibition on these kinds of thefts.
- sliverstorm 12y agoThe early Congress wrote forfeiture laws based on British maritime law to help federal tax collectors collect customs duties, which financed most of the expenses of the federal government in the early days of the republic. Seizures allowed government to confiscate property from citizens who failed to pay taxes or customs duties. The Supreme Court upheld these forfeiture statutes in situations where it was virtually impossible to get hold of guilty persons on the high seas while possible to get hold of their property. During much of the 19th century there was not much attention paid to forfeiture laws. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United_States#History http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_forfeiture_in_the_United_...