All Posts Tagged With: "due process"
Liberating the Jury
Nathan Lapp is a dairy farmer and coordinator of the New York Fully Informed Jury Association in Cassadaga, New York. When disputes arise over who has the freedom to do what, fundamental principles of fairness, or “right reason,” as Roman philosopher Cicero phrased it, must come into play.[1] For this task, the founders recommended trial [...]
1Mar1998 | Nathan Lapp | 1 comment | ContinuedLaw Enforcement by Deceit?: Entrapment and Due Process
Ms. Johnson is a freelance journalist living in Tampa, Florida. She writes a monthly column dealing with personal sovereignty issues for Impact Press, a regional magazine distributed in the southeastern United States. Her work also appears regularly in The Hernando Today. According to an April 1993 FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, “Law enforcement officers often employ [...]
1Nov1996 | Jennifer Johnson | 24 comments | ContinuedSeizure Fever: The War on Property Rights
Mr. Bovard is the author of Shakedown (Viking, 1995) and Lost Rights: The Destruction of American Liberty (St. Martin’s, 1994). Mass confiscation has become politically fashionable. Politicians and the courts have created an overwhelming presumption in favor of the government’s right to seize control over private land, private homes, boats, and cars, and even the [...]
1Jan1996 | James Bovard | 1 comment | ContinuedHabeas Corpus to the Rescue
Mr. Jordan is a British journalist. At the old Mark Brown’s Wharf in London, on Wednesday, July 28, 1954, the “Jaroslaw Dabrowski,” flying the flag of Communist Poland, was unloading huge bales of wood wool used for packing. Agile cockney dockers went down into the hold to lash the bales to chains swung from an [...]
1Jun1956 | Alexander T. Jordan | 0 comments | Continued-
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