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Politics : America Under Siege: The End of Innocence -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (12430)	12/31/2001 8:47:12 AM
From: joseph krinsky	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 27756

Well, in our country indigents are guarenteed representation, so the government pays for their lawyers when they get in trouble. The problem is, IMO some people have extended the constitutional rights to people that I don't think the founding fathers intended for them to have. The use of the word citizens is mentioned in the very beginning, and so I believe they intended the constitution to be applicable only to US citizens. Now of course at that time everyone who was on their side and after we won, I would guess became citizens. But the idea IMO was that it only applied to citizens, not non citizens. What has happened with the concept of interpreting the constitution as a "living constitution" means that each succeeding generation interprets it as they wish, for expediency. In most cases that is probably a good thing, since it has enabled us to progress. Being tied to ideas and concepts that are written in the light of day of one age isn't always beneficial to societies in another age. (The muslims and islamists are a perfect example of this.) However, sometimes it is a bad thing, and I think that we have screwed up in this area of granting equal rights & protection to everyone that is on our soil, just by virtue of being here. I am in the school that thinks that non citizens have NO rights here, and are guests. IMO we basically owe them nothing other than to be civil to them.