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To: robertpaulsen

“The People” are the same in the first, second and fourth amendments so you can’t pick and choose how you want define it. Nowhere in the Constitution does it state that the term “The People” refers to different meanings in different Amendments. It isn’t for your convenience that it changes meaning. The slip of your credibility has now totally exploded into blinding nonsense.

Ravenstar


78 posted on 03/18/2008 7:47:13 AM PDT by Ravenstar (Reinstitute the Constitution as the Ultimate Law of the Land)
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To: Ravenstar
"“The People” are the same in the first, second and fourth amendments so you can’t pick and choose how you want define it."

That is correct. Whenever you see the phrase "the people" it means the enfranchised body politic (ie., the voters).

In 1792 they were adult, white, male citizens. Today, "the people" also includes women and non-whites. It does not mean everyone or even every citizen.

81 posted on 03/18/2008 8:11:48 AM PDT by robertpaulsen
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