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To: sourcery
All persons

All persons? ALL persons?

Complete and utter rubbish. You are proposing that United States Constitutional rights devolve to every person on or off the planet.

Wrong. These rights are guaranteed by the Constitution only to United States Citizens.

9 posted on 07/09/2009 2:26:33 AM PDT by John Valentine
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To: John Valentine
These rights are guaranteed by the Constitution only to United States Citizens.

You are terribly mistaken. The inalienable, human rights recognized (not granted) by the US Constitution are those that all persons intrinsically possess by virtue of their being persons. That's what the Declaration of Independence says (*We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights.") That's what the Framers said. It's what the courts") have said from the founding of the Republic. It's settled law, and is beyond reasonable dispute.

We don't have rights because we are US citizens, or because some law says we do. We have rights because we are human beings. The US Constitution's purpose is to a) enumerate some (but not all) of those inalienable, human rights, and b) require our government to respect them.

16 posted on 07/09/2009 8:47:14 AM PDT by sourcery (Obama Lied. The Economy Died!)
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To: John Valentine
You are proposing that United States Constitutional rights devolve to every person on or off the planet.

colonialism

26 posted on 07/25/2009 6:02:07 PM PDT by GeronL (Guilty of the crime of deviationism.)
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