I'm tickled pink when 14th Amendment due process rights are extended. After the Civil War, the Southern states tried to disenfranchise the newly freed slaves and rely on the Dred Scott decision to say that they weren't people and had no rights to sue against illegal government action by state or local officials. The 14th Am. protects ALL OF US from being denied "life, liberty or property without due process of law." It also solved the Dred Scott problem by defining all persons born or naturalized in the USA as citizens of the US and of the state in which they reside. I don't want the gov't taking my stuff arbitrarily, much less killing me. How can anybody be against due process?

You know, your comment inspires me. I'm going to watch A Man For All Seasons tonight. <link> Thomas Moore in the play had something to say about giving criminals the protection of the law: "This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake! "