GOVT 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Natural-Born-Citizen Clause, Excessive Bail Clause, Traffic Ticket
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Courts have been arguing about that for a long time: tortue, drawing and quartering, burning alive, disembowelment, under. 16 death penalty, revoking citizenship of natural born citizen. Civil forfeiture, civil asset forfeiture, civil justice forfeiture, civil seizure: article how police took ,000 from a christian band, an orphanage, and a church . Law enforcement officers take assets from individuals suspected of involvement of crime or illegal activity, owners do not have to be charged: tool in combating illegal drug trade, war on drugs (1980s) onward. Little oversight on how money is spent gravity of the offense: 2019, tims v. indiana, protection against excessive fees in civil forfeiture is also incorporated against state and local government, 15 states now require a criminal conviction. Bill of rights: tenth amendment: the powers not delegated to the united states by the constitution, nor prohibited by it to the. States, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
