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To: FLOutdoorsman

The Constitution applies Laws and Rights only to Citizens.

Non-Citizens are Non-Citizens. They are not Covered.


89 posted on 01/23/2007 9:50:43 PM PST by Prost1 (Fair and Unbiased as always!)
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To: Prost1

Not true.

When the Constitution wishes to limit a right only to citizens, it uses the word “citizen” (like when discussing the right to vote in federal elections). Elsewhere, it uses the word “person”. That relates back to the Declaration’s assertion that it is self-evident that man as man is endowed with unalienable rights by the Creator.

So, in the Fifth Amendment:

“No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor ... shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law”

This is pretty plain. All persons, whether citizens or not, are entitled to due process, unless they are in service in the military or the National Guard in time of war or public danger.

I’m a non-citizen with a green card. Are you seriously suggesting that I can be imprisoned without trial just because of that?


90 posted on 06/19/2007 7:47:11 PM PDT by alexzion
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