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Quoted: I'd limit all of our specific Constitutional rights and protections to American citizens only.
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The concept behind the bill of rights are that they are inaleanable human rights.
The Constitution merely verbalizes and enshrines them. |
That was the concept,however it's a false concept.
Most of those "natural rights" are not protected in actuality because no one agrees on what they actually are. They are subject to both the whims of the people,their legislatures and the courts which routinely restrict them at whim. Hence the need for a Bill of Rights was, in hindsight, an excellent idea as it succeeded in providing a far better bulwark than what exists to protect "natural rights". (That bulwark being the process of amending the constitution with a super-majority.)
Many of the ideas enshrined in the Constitution are far more specific than general human rights,and many of them can hurt our nation when they are used in defense of non-citizens (habeus corpus or bearing arms for foreign aggressors for example).
Giving rights to your possible enemies is ludicrous. Let international citizens protect their own rights with their own ideas of what constitutes proper law.