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Google is (modulo the corporation/person thingy) granted rights under the Constitution. The Constitution only limits Google to the extent that it's the basis f
by wiredfool 13y ago
Google is (modulo the corporation/person thingy) granted rights under the Constitution.
The Constitution only limits Google to the extent that it's the basis for the system of laws that do the limiting.
- CWuestefeld 13y agoFurther semantic hairsplitting, perhaps: Not Google nor any other person is granted rights under the Constitution. Given the Natural Rights philosophy subscribed to by many of the founders, as described by John Locke and others, the rights of the people pre-exist, simply by virtue of their being people. The Constitution comes later. It describes a set of enumerated powers that the people have decided to cede to the government that they're creating. The way you describe it is the other way around from this.