It is interesting, that you mention forfeiture. In my opinion it is one of the biggest examples, how governments twist basic personal rights that are normally protected by the constitution.

Recently, I also learnt that even in the Magna Carta (1215 BC) the property of a "free person" was protected against the grasp of the potentate.

When modern governments now disable this basic right by legal trickery, than we in essence loose our freedom.