DomKen
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Joined: 7/4/2004 From: Chicago, IL Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: popeye1250 LOL, DomKen, there you go again! So they can vote, work, and own firearms? Hey! Here's an idea, let's have DomKen buy them all condos,...oh, and Cadillacs too! "Hey! All you billion.2 Chinese, come on over and vote in our next election!" Who said anything about voting? It's certainly not a protected right or those states that disenfranchise ex cons wouldn't be able to. But those things that are protected rights are granted to all no matter what. Freedom of speech, religion, assembly and petition, habeus corpus, speedy trial, etc. No they're not! I give up. You guys are too far out there! The US constitution repeatedly uses citizen for some things, qualifications to hold elective office for instance, but person in many other places. This was quite clearly intentional and person and people are used without exception in the Bill of Rights. Even in the 14th where both citizen and person are used it is quite clear that the distinction was intentional: quote:
1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws Are you done making stuff up now or will I have to post the various SCOTUS rulings on the issue?
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