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Old 06-12-08, 02:21 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Re: To Who Does the USA Constitution Apply?

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Originally Posted by jfuh View Post
Do foreign tourists have free speech while visiting the US?
Good point, if you believe in habeus corpus and civil rights, I just do not see how the argument is not just as valid for non-citizens.

IMO the use of "people" rather than "citizens" in our founding documents indicate that such rights are universal to ALL people, not just US citizens.
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