12-23-2012, 01:13 PM
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Originally Posted by Smut
No he doesn't. Not unless he's a U.S. citizen, which he is not.
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No, you are misinformed;
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THOMAS JEFFERSON LAW REVIEW
Vol. 25:367
1. ALIENS, CITIZENS, AND CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS The Constitution does distinguish in some respects between the rights of citizens and noncitizens: the right not to be discriminatorily denied the vote and the right to run for federal elective office are expressly restricted to citizens.
12 All other rights, however, are written without such a limitation. The Fifth and Fourteenth Amendment due process and equal protection guarantees extend to all "persons."
12. U.S. CONST. art. I, §§ 2, 3; U.S. CON ST. art. II, § 1; U.S. CONST. amend. 15. The Constitution's limitation to citizens of the right against discriminatory denial of the vote does not mean that noncitizens cannot vote. If a state or locality chooses to enfranchise its noncitizen residents, it may do so. Indeed, until the early twentieth century, noncitizens routinely enjoyed the right to vote as a matter of state and local law. By contrast, the Constitution expressly restricts to citizens the right to hold federal elective office.
http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/facpub/297
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He's entitled to his opinion but lacks any color of authority to take anyone's 2nd Amendment rights.
As for the UK "nanny state"
Victory for the tabloids! Online porn to be filtered by default in UK
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2...default-in-uk/
Freedom of some speech that the press likes?
Maybe, you understand the context of his rhetoric now? |
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