To: ConservativeMind
A bill of attainder (also known as an act or writ of attainder) is an act of legislature declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime and punishing them without benefit of a trial. Bills of attainder are forbidden by Article I, section 9, clause 3 of the United States Constitution.
To: pabianice
Problem is...these people did not commit a crime.
15 posted on
03/19/2009 12:15:29 PM PDT by
EBH
(The world is a balance between good & evil, your next choice will tip the scale.)
To: pabianice
is an act of legislature declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime and punishing them without benefit of a trialThere is no crime alleged.
24 posted on
03/19/2009 12:18:11 PM PDT by
Glenn
(Free Venezuela!)
To: pabianice
Constitution?...liberals don't need no Constitution! All they need is to scare the sheople, rile the sheople up with rhetoric and act when the sheople bleat.
Frightening.
Saul Alinsky will be proud.
30 posted on
03/19/2009 12:20:46 PM PDT by
socialismisinsidious
( The socialist income tax system turns US citizens into beggars or quitters!)
To: pabianice
I agree this was true until the 16th amendment came along. I think they are using that as the umbrella.
The law which the 16th amendment is based on was found unconstitutional several times before it was made explicitly part of the constitution.
54 posted on
03/19/2009 12:31:42 PM PDT by
fooman
(Get real with Kim Jung Mentally Ill about proliferation)
To: pabianice
Applies only to criminal, not civil. Aren’t smokers targeted along with other groups with taxes?
59 posted on
03/19/2009 12:37:15 PM PDT by
babygene
(It seems that stupidity is the most abundant element in the universe)
To: pabianice
BUMP!
Please read my tag. Damn glad.
113 posted on
03/19/2009 1:21:01 PM PDT by
upchuck
(I'm glad I'm old. Thus I can remember when America was a decent, moral, God fearing country.)
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