>[1] The US Constitution does not provide the same levels of > protection to non-Citizens, which is why drone-strikes on > foreigners is still disgusting

>[1] The US Constitution does not provide the same levels of > protection to non-Citizens, which is why drone-strikes on > foreigners is still disgusting but not as terrifying (from > the perspective of a US citizen). I hear this asserted frequently but it is simply not the case. There are a very few places where the citizenship requirement is explicitly stated (e.g. voting or holding public office), but generically the US Constitution refers to "persons" not citizens. For a scholarly article on this topic, see: http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1302&context=facpub http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?ar...