Obama claims that his little
star chamber proceeding , in which he and his henchmen decide who gets put on
the “kill list,” constitutes “due process.” As usual, Mr. Obama is lying.
Here’s a little bit about what
due process actually is --- and just kicking it around with his boys doesn’t
cut it:
"The essential
elements of due process of law are notice,
an opportunity to be heard, and the
right to defend in an orderly proceeding." Fiehe v. R.E.
Householder Co., 125 So. 2, 7 (Fla. 1929).
"To dispense with
notice before taking property is likened to obtaining judgement without the
defendant having ever been summoned." Mayor of Baltimore vs. Scharf,
54 Md. 499, 519 (1880).
"An orderly proceeding
wherein a person is served with notice, actual or constructive, and has an
opportunity to be heard and to enforce and protect his rights before a court
having power to hear and determine the case. Kazubowski v. Kazubowski,
45 Ill.2d 405, 259, N.E.2d 282, 290." Black’s Law Dictionary, 6th Edition,
page 500.
"Due Process of law
implies and comprehends the administration of laws equally applicable to all
under established rules which do not violate fundamental principles of private
rights, and in a competent tribunal possessing jurisdiction of the cause and
proceeding upon justice. It is founded upon the basic principle that every man
shall have his day in court, and the benefit of the general law which proceeds
only upon notice and which hears and considers before judgement is
rendered." State v. Green, 232 S.W.2d 897, 903 (Mo. 1950).
"Phrase means that no person shall be deprived of life,
liberty, property or of any right granted him by statute, unless matter
involved first shall have been adjudicated against him upon trial conducted
according to established rules regulating judicial proceedings, and it forbids
condemnation without a hearing, Pettit v. Penn., La.App., 180 So.2d
66, 69." Black’s Law Dictionary, 6th Edition, page 500.
"Due Process of law
implies the right of the person affected
thereby to be present before the tribunal which pronounces judgement upon
the question of life, liberty, or property, in its most comprehensive sense; to be heard, by testimony or otherwise, and
to have the right of controverting, by proof, every material fact which bears
on the question of right in the matter involved. If any question of fact or liability be conclusively presumed against
him, this is not due process of law." Black’s Law Dictionary, 6th
Edition, page 500.
"Aside from all else, ‘due
process’ means fundamental fairness and
substantial justice. Vaughn v. State, 3 Tenn.Crim.App. 54, 456
S.W.2d 879, 883." Black’s Law Dictionary, 6th Edition, page 500.
"[T]he meaning [due
process] does not change with the ebb and flow of economic events." -
Justice Sutherland, in West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish, 300 U.S. 379,
402 (1936).
"It is manifest it was
not left to the legislative power to exact any process which might be devised. The [due process] article is a restraint on
the legislative as well as on the executive and judicial powers of government,
and cannot be so construed as to leave congress free to make any process ‘due
process of law,’ by its mere will." Murray's Lessee v. Hoboken Imp.
Co., 18 How. (59 U.S.) 272, 276 (1855); French v. Barber Asphalt,
181 U.S. 324, 330 (1900).
"An act of the
legislature is not necessarily the ‘law of the land.’ A state cannot make
anything ‘due process of law’ which, by its own legislation, it declares to be
such." Burdick v. People, 36 N.E. 948, 949, 149 Ill. 600 (1894).
"Due process of law
does not mean merely according to the will of the Legislature, or the will of
some judicial or quasi-judicial body upon whom it may confer authority. It means according to the law of the land,
including the Constitution with its guaranties and the legislative
enactments and rules duly made by its authority, so far as they are consistent
with constitutional limitations." Ekern v. McGovern, 154 Wis. 157,
142 N.W. 595, 620 (1913), cases cited.
"’The law of the land,’
as used in the constitution, has long had an interpretation, which is well
understood and practically adhered to. It does not mean an Act of the Legislature;
if such was the true interpretation, this branch of the government could at any
time take away life, liberty, property and privilege, without a trial by
jury." Saco v. Wentworth, 37 Maine 165, 171 (1852).
"The individual may
stand upon his constitutional rights as a citizen." "His rights are
such as existed by the law of the land long antecedent to the organization of
the State, and can only be taken from him by due process of law, and in
accordance with the Constitution." Hale v. Henkel, 201 U.S. 43, 74
(1905).
"[T]he provision [due process clause] is designed to exclude
oppression and arbitrary power from every branch of government." Dupuy v. Tedora, 15 So.2d 886, 890, 204 La. 560 (1943).
"The Legislative has no right to absolute, arbitrary power over the
lives and fortunes of the people. The Legislative cannot justly assume to
itself a power to rule by extempore arbitrary decrees…" Samuel Adams, The
Rights of the Colonists (1772).
"Daniel
Webster, in the Dartmouth College Case, stated: ‘By the law of the land is most
clearly intended the general law; a law which hears before it condemns; which
proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgement only after trial. The meaning is
that every citizen shall hold his life, liberty, property, and immunities, under
the protection of the general rules which govern society. Everything which may
pass under the form of an enactment is not therefore to be considered the law
of the land.’ - It is thus entirely correct in assuming that a legislative
enactment is not necessarily the law of the land." - Judge Thomas M.
Cooley, A Treatise on Constitutional Limitations, 5th Ed. liberty & justice,
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