In Article III of the U.S. Constitution, where it talks about treason, the founding document states that "no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood." What that means is that the person convicted of treason is the only person who can legally be punished for his act. His family, nor his descendants, may not be held responsible, nor pay any debt or punishment, for the crimes of the convicted and attainted.
Suddenly, reparations don't sound very constitutional.
In my Constitution Classes I talk often about how the Constitution is based on biblical principles.
While in the cultural sense the sins of the father may haunt his descendants, in the legal since, from the Bible's point of view, as with the Constitution, no corruption of blood shall be worked.
Deuteronomy 24:16; King James Version
The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.
-- Political Pistachio Conservative News and Commentary
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