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To: robertpaulsen; All

The People: any and everyone who is lawfully within the territorial limits of the United States AND SUBJECT TO THE JURISDICTION THEREOF. In other words, everyone who is a citizen or LEGAL resident of this country can be said to be part of “We, the People.”


329 posted on 10/25/2007 8:57:02 PM PDT by dcwusmc (We need to make government so small that it can be drowned in a bathtub.)
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"In other words, everyone who is a citizen or LEGAL resident of this country can be said to be part of “We, the People.”

So "the people" of the second amendment are different than "the people" in Article I, Section 2 which reads (in part):

"The House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states ..."

If indeed "the people" means "everyone who is a citizen or LEGAL resident of this country", then that means children can vote. And the insane, felons, etc.

You sure you mean that? In other parts of the U.S. Constitution (eg., Article IV, Section 2), if the Founding Fathers meant "citizen" they wrote "citizen".

Ooooh. And you posted to "All". That's embarrassing on a global scale.

330 posted on 10/26/2007 4:51:22 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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