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Are you asking if the American Constitution and the American Bill of Rights only applies to Americans? Enemy combatants belong to non-state actors, and so no t
by colinplamondon 16y ago
Are you asking if the American Constitution and the American Bill of Rights only applies to Americans?
Enemy combatants belong to non-state actors, and so no treaties or guidelines apply to them. Last I checked Al doesn't Al Qaeda and the rest of the cavers don't get representatives in the UN.
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- JoachimSchipper 16y agoActually, at least the Universal Declaration of Human Rights does apply to them.
- marshray 16y agoUnless the United Nations finds it inconvenient: http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml http://www.un.org/en/documents/udhr/index.shtml Article 29(3) These rights and freedoms may in no case be exercised contrary to the purposes and principles of the United Nations.
- jbooth 16y agoHow we choose to act in the absence of treaties or guidelines says a lot more about us than it does about inalienable human rights.
- dailyrorschach 16y agoActually, the US Constitution is much broader in terms of protecting individuals then I think you realize. The Constitution is specific when it intends to reserve rights only for citizens, otherwise it uses the word Persons. See perhaps most recently _Boumediene v. Bush_ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boumediene_v._Bush http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boumediene_v._Bush Namely that these enemy combatants do have rights under the Constitution in this case the right to a habeas petition. The other relevant historic case-law here is _Yick Wo v. Hopkins (1886)_ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yick_Wo_v._Hopkins http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yick_Wo_v._Hopkins "these provisions [the Constitution] are universal in their application, to all persons within the territorial jurisdiction."