[48531] in Cypherpunks
Re: "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jim bell)
Mon Jan 29 17:37:06 1996
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 13:51:47 -0800
To: Alan Pugh <ampugh@mci.newscorp.com>, cypherpunks@toad.com
From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
At 02:15 PM 1/29/96 -0500, Alan Pugh wrote:
>>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'.
Thank you for verifying concurring. I haven't read the Constitution in a
few years,
so I was a bit hazy, but I think I managed to hit the nail reasonably well
on the head.
