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To: H.Akston
The persons/people of the United States established the Constitution "to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity". They didn't do it to secure the blessings of liberty for Mohammed the tArabist.

So now you're telling me the Preamble limits freedom to the posterity of the American citizens of 1889? Okay, add black folks because of the post- Civil War amendments. That still leaves out most of the American population.

You're cracked, dude.

Please stop Clintonizing and parsing. It's embarassing.

Yes, you really said that taking "person" to mean person is Clintonizing and parsing. Turning the Constitution on its head is apparently making everything upside down.

Person means exactly that.

708 posted on 08/11/2002 9:42:19 PM PDT by A.J.Armitage
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To: A.J.Armitage
"posterity of the American citizens of 1889"

where on God's green earth did you get that year? You're the one who's cracked. You tried to say that the word "people", in "We the people" doesn't mean all persons of the United states!

710 posted on 08/12/2002 5:21:07 PM PDT by H.Akston
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To: A.J.Armitage
Yes, you really said that taking "person" to mean person is Clintonizing and parsing. Turning the Constitution on its head is apparently making everything upside down.

Huh? You're the one turning the Constitution on its head, giving foreign terrorists IVth Amendment protections from our Government's mission to protect its citizens.

711 posted on 08/12/2002 5:37:32 PM PDT by H.Akston
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