REPARATIONS FOR SLAVE OWNERS

President Lincoln's 1 January 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, which freed slaves living in the United States, violates the 5th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution because it did not compensate owners as required.

The Fifth Amendment says, in part, "No person shall be . . . deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation."

The Constitution also states that no x-post facto law may be passed. X-post facto laws are laws that do not grandfather in existing cases when something is made illegal.

Slaves were property of slave owners and were taken away by the federal government without any compensation to their owners, for use of a public which included former slaves. Former slave owners never received compensation for the value of their slaves as property and for lost income which the freed slaves would have produced for their owners.

So it is not the ancestors of slaves that are due reparations since slave ownership was legal. It is the ancestors of the slave owners who are due just compensation as required by the Constitution.

So as an ancestor of slave owners when do I get my money?
And who should we sue the feds or the ansestors of the slaves?