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Due Process Is Vital to Freedom

by Andrew P. Napolitano

"No person shall ... be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law..." -- Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution 

The clash in American history between liberty and safety is as old as the republic itself. As far back as 1798, notwithstanding the lofty goals and individualistic values of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, the same generation -- in some cases the same human beings -- that wrote in the First Amendment that "Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech" enacted the Alien and Sedition Acts, which punished. . .

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