[48493] in Cypherpunks
Re: "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Pugh)
Mon Jan 29 14:30:43 1996
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 14:15:19 -0500
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: Alan Pugh <ampugh@mci.newscorp.com>
Cc: jimbell@pacifier.com
>It isn't clear to me that the Constitution grants "rights" to the government
>that aren't already possessed by the people themselves. Would that even be
>possible? "Powers" maybe, "rights," maybe not.
the constitution is an amazingly consistant document internally. take a slow
read through it and you will see that you are absolutely correct. when
'people' are being referred to, the term used is 'rights'. when it is a
governmental organization (state or federal), the term used is always 'powers'.
amp
