Amendments V and VI
[Volume 5, Page 259]
Document 17
Connecticut Constitutional
ORDINANCE OF 1776
Poore 1:258
2. And be it further enacted and declared, That no Man's Life shall be taken away: No Man's Honor or good Name shall be stained: No Man's Person shall be arrested, restrained, banished, dismembered, nor any Ways punished: No Man shall be deprived of his Wife or Children: No Man's Goods or Estate shall be taken away from him, nor any Ways indamaged under the Colour of Law, or Countenance of Authority; unless clearly warranted by the Laws of this State.
The Founders' Constitution
Volume 5, Amendments V and VI, Document 17
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