Guilty until proven innocent

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https://object.cato.org/sites/cato.org/files/serials/files/cato-handbook-policymakers/2009/9/hb111-34.pdf - good read

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gowlerk

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How can this pass constitutional muster?

I could be wrong, but I don't think the US Constitution covers property rights.

Fourth amendment

"Here's a good specimen of my own wisdom. Something is so, except when it isn't so."

Charles Fort, commenting on the many contradictions of astronomy

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Croc

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How can this pass constitutional muster?

I could be wrong, but I don't think the US Constitution covers property rights.

Fourth amendment

Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

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The only sure way to survive a canopy collision is not to have one.

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kallend

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How can this pass constitutional muster?

I could be wrong, but I don't think the US Constitution covers property rights.

Fourth amendment

Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

And yet.....

A LOT of people have lost their property when either no crime was committed or nothing that would justify that level of punishment.