[66196] in Cypherpunks
Re: Bernstein hearing: The Press Release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim McCoy)
Mon Sep 23 03:06:17 1996
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960923010916.29450G-100000@mercury.thepoint.net>
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 1996 23:54:08 -0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Jim McCoy <mccoy@communities.com>
Brian Davis <bdavis@thepoint.net>
[...]
>Constitutional literalists take note: the First Amendment says nothing
>about what the executive branch or the states can do ....
The states are prohibited through the 14th Amendment via the
Slaughterhouse cases, the ability of the executive branch to
violate due process is questionable (from a legal viewpoint, not
a practical one...the President cannot order you placed in jail
unless you have broken a law which requires congress to have
made the law in the first place...)
jim
