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Explain why, in your opinion, the extrajudicial assassination of U.S. citizens does not violate the U.S. Constitution.

Created by L.R. on January 09, 2013

Amendment V to the U.S. Constitution provides that "no person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury,...

"nor shall any person...

"be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law...."

The Obama administration has authorized the assassination of U.S. citizens, and other people around the world, by military and intelligence forces in covert operations, as by missile strikes from unmanned aerial drones, and thus has apparently forced them to answer with their lives for suspected capital or otherwise infamous crimes, yet has not convened or presented the indictment of a Grand Jury as to their probable culpability, and has therefore deprived them of life without due process of law.

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