[H.Akston]

The people of the United States are the authority issuing the Constitution. If you take that authority seriously, you look at what it says, which leads us back to the fact that the Constitution prohibits the government from doing certain things. Not certain things to us (and the Founders would certainly have known how to say it that if that's what they wanted to say), but certain things, period.

That argument doesn't fly, because our government can do most anything to a person outside the United States. Amd as soon as you realize that, you must admit that nationalities are important to the Context of the Bill of Rights. Ever heard of that law against assassinations we're bound to? Now that law wouldn't be necessary if the Bill or Rights restricted the US Government from "doing certain things" (Depriving life without due process) to persons without regard to political boundaries and nationalities.

You've got to understand the Context in which the Constitution exists.

[A.J.Armitage]

I suppose you think that's a clever little argument there.