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To: OneWingedShark
he Constitution sets limits on what the government does, otherwise it is useless.

the Constitution should ONLY apply to American citizens...it is a contract between the parties involved and should not necessarily apply to anyone else. I, as an American citizen cannot be forced to testify against myself....that should not, as a matter of legal right, be extended to anyone else....they have no contract with our government at all...

40 posted on 12/13/2014 3:20:12 PM PST by terycarl (common sense prevails over all)
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To: terycarl
>> the Constitution sets limits on what the government does, otherwise it is useless.
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> the Constitution should ONLY apply to American citizens...it is a contract between the parties involved and should not necessarily apply to anyone else. I, as an American citizen cannot be forced to testify against myself....that should not, as a matter of legal right, be extended to anyone else....they have no contract with our government at all...

Ah, so then it's perfectly fine to take a foreign national's possessions w/o warrant, force him to answer for a capital crime [at the time/location of incident], and kill him without ever appearing before a jury?

According to you that's all fine and dandy.
But let's hold to the contract model a bit — Have you signed the Constitution? I'm pretty sure that no you haven't. Now, as someone who is not a signatory to the contract, how can you claim that you are one of the parties thereof?

What's to keep the Government from, say, enacting a law that makes citizenship dependent upon enrolling in ObamaCare?
We have seen that the Constitutional guarantee of the right to keep and bear arms does not extend to felons, despite it being a normal act of the legislature which strips them of this, and that said act is ex post facto and therefore prohibited and should be nullity — What's to stop them from setting up something similar to strip you of your citizenship?

43 posted on 12/13/2014 3:34:04 PM PST by OneWingedShark (Q: Why am I here? A: To do Justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with my God.)
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