Thomas Paine in 1776 stated, these are the times that try men 's souls. When a people agree to form themselves into a republic, it is understood that they mutually resolve and pledge themselves to each other, rich and poor alike, to support this rule of equal justice among them, they renounce as detestable, the power of exercising, at any future time any species of despotism over each other, because a majority of them may have the strength of numbers sufficient to accomplish it. Due process is the sleeper issue of the 2nd trump regime, no one expected him to defy the Courts an = branch of govt