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To: robertpaulsen
It does not mean every person, if that's what you're getting at.

What is a "group" made up of? If you are excluding some from said "group", then you aren't talking about the entire "group" any more. You are talking a "select few". This weird little elitist view of yours runs contrary to the Constitution.

Not really a surprise coming from you...

850 posted on 11/14/2007 1:36:15 PM PST by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: Dead Corpse
"What is a "group" made up of?"

I thought you said you read Parker. No?

"Indeed, the Supreme Court has recently endorsed a uniform reading of “the people” across the Bill of Rights. In United States v. Verdugo- Urquidez, 494 U.S. 259 (1990), the Court looked specifically at the Constitution and Bill of Rights’ use of “people” in the course of holding that the Fourth Amendment did not protect the rights of non-citizens on foreign soil:

[T]he people” seems to have been a term of art employed in select parts of the Constitution. The Preamble declares that the Constitution is ordained and established by “the People of the United States.” The Second Amendment protects “the right of the people to keep and bear Arms,” and the Ninth and Tenth Amendments provide that certain rights and powers are retained by and reserved to “the people.” See also U.S. CONST., amdt. 1; Art. I, § 2, cl. 1.

While this textual exegesis is by no means conclusive, it suggests that “the people” protected by the Fourth Amendment, and by the First and Second Amendments, and to whom rights and powers are reserved in the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, refers to a class of persons who are part of a national community or who have otherwise developed sufficient connection with this country to be considered part of that community.

853 posted on 11/14/2007 2:15:37 PM PST by robertpaulsen
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