DomKen
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Joined: 7/4/2004 From: Chicago, IL Status: offline
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ORIGINAL: AQuietSimpleMan DomKen, I did not quote it cause I have a simple answer to what you posted. Read the first few Paragraphs of the constitution and you will see that "People" is WE the People, As the Constitution did NOT apply to the english that were were seperating from unless they wanted to be citizens of these United States. Words have meaning in CONTEXT, you can't just see a word and think it applies universally this is why words have different meaning. NO Constitutional RIGHT was afforded to any Non Citizen of the United states until the Supreme Court got involved with it. And that is when the Constitution got pissed all over. Making a Permanent ruleing on the Constitution has divided what the Constitution should mean, sometimes these are nesessary such as with Slavery, sometimes they are not, like with Privacy. QSM Bullshit. You are under the mistaken belief that the US Constitution was written before independence. The war had been over for several years by the time the preamble was written. I presented the document in context. Everywhere, except for sections about voting and holding public office, person is used. The authors chose to use citizen when discussing holding office and voting so clearly if they intended things to be restricted to citizens alone they could have (and since the document in its original form did include the concept of people as chattel) they clearly held that there was a difference between a person and a citizen. IOW the US Constitution says person and they meant person not citizen.
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