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It's bizarre to me that the US constitution's philosophical basis is that it does not create rights but only recognizes natural or God-given rights that people
by Causality1 7y ago
It's bizarre to me that the US constitution's philosophical basis is that it does not create rights but only recognizes natural or God-given rights that people already have, yet the US government doesn't recognize those rights for anyone but its own citizens.
- bumby 7y agoMy (limited) understanding is that the Constitution does extend to non-citizens in many circumstances. Those are the ones that state rights of a "person" rather than "citizen". E.g., "nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law"
- ianhawes 7y agoIt is largely an untested theory. The USG asserts that his 1A protections do not apply because he is not a USC and speech was outside the US. That begs the question of whether the court then has jurisdiction. It is a good rule of thumb that if you are being tried in the US, the constitution applies to you.