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To: AZRepublican
8th Amend.: No cruel and unusual (to dismember conscious individuals) punishment

5th Amend.: No person shall be deprived of life without due process of law

3 posted on 01/15/2006 8:45:55 PM PST by Tim Long (I spit in the face of people who don't want to be cool.)
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To: Tim Long

When the 5th speaks of "deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process" it is speaking of punishment for a violation of law. The framers decided the Constitution was not going to be the source of peoples personal liberties and that's what they gave us!


5 posted on 01/15/2006 8:52:22 PM PST by AZRepublican
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To: Tim Long
No cruel and unusual (to dismember conscious individuals) punishment

Sorry, but VIII is a limitation on the State, not mommy.

Torture murderers do not violate the eighth amendment.

24 posted on 01/16/2006 3:48:18 AM PST by Jim Noble (Fiat justitia, ruat coelum)
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