Originally Posted by
excon
Hello again, Steve:
So, THAT'S where you think the founders listed who the "people" are and who they're not?
Nahh. What they were doing is listing the people who were WRITING the Constitution. The complete sentence says: "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
That was the correct place to list who the authors were.
In the Bill of Rights, however, where our rights were specified and enumerated, these same men COULD have listed, like they did earlier, "the people of the United States" as the only people these rights apply to. But, they didn't.
So, are you saying, that anyone who is NOT a citizen is NOT entitled to ANY of our Constitutional protections???
excon