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To: EndWelfareToday

There is no quicker way to get you to run from a thread in tears than to ask you to describe the difference between "people" and "citizen" to me. I subscribe to a originalist/textualist interpretation of the Constitution.


38 posted on 01/23/2007 5:47:17 AM PST by 1rudeboy
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To: 1rudeboy
There is no quicker way to expose an ignoramus than to ask him/her to quote books and documents in context.
context

noun
1.  discourse that surrounds a language unit and helps to determine its interpretation 
2.  the set of facts or circumstances that surround a situation or event; "the historical context" 

The US Constitution was written as a guide to govern the "People of the United States" (US Citizens) NOT the world. Residing in the US illegally no more makes a person a "citizen" of the US than a stowaway is a member of a ship's crew. Both are criminals and NOT deserving of the same protections law abiding "citizens" have.

39 posted on 01/23/2007 6:02:58 AM PST by EndWelfareToday (Live free and keep what you earn.)
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To: 1rudeboy

"I subscribe to a originalist/textualist interpretation of the Constitution."

Did the invading British soldiers in the War or 1812 have 2nd and 4th Amendment protections?

Who is "We the People"?


41 posted on 01/23/2007 6:09:23 AM PST by EnochPowellWasRight
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