{"id":788,"date":"2015-12-19T17:38:07","date_gmt":"2015-12-19T08:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/?p=788"},"modified":"2017-07-06T19:42:01","modified_gmt":"2017-07-06T10:42:01","slug":"constitution-border-sovereignty-citizenship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/constitution-border-sovereignty-citizenship\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitution, Border, Sovereignty, Citizenship"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Constitution not only lays out a framework for government, but passage and ratification of the Constitution by the States actually constituted<\/em> a new government. \u00a0The federal government is literally the creature<\/em> of the states, a thing created by them.<\/p>\n

A government exercises sovereignty over its territory and its citizens, and our Constitution specifies that government sovereignty is at the sufferage of the citizens themselves. \u00a0This point is repeatedly made in writings on how the Constitution came to be, in procedures spelled out in the Constitution itself, and explored thoroughly in associated writings by those who brought forth the Constitution itself.<\/p>\n

Citizenship is as tightly defined by custom and usage as any other term. \u00a0We all know what it means for most purposes. \u00a0Borders are also not much in dispute. \u00a0Borders and sovereignty go hand-in-hand, just as citizenship and the Constitution do. \u00a0These four things taken together are the boundaries of a legal, mental, moral, theoretical\u00a0concept. \u00a0And we live in it. \u00a0We the People have breathed life into this idea — centered upon Liberty, bounded by limits, defended with our lives, inherited and passed on as best we are able.<\/p>\n

Threats to this construct of Liberty are multiplying, gaining ground. \u00a0Among them is the idea that our Constitutional rights apply to non-citizens, foreigners, all humanity, and so forth. \u00a0This is plainly nonsense. \u00a0In the most recent version of the same old threat, the argument is made that applying a “religious test” as an immigration control is unconstitutional because of the “no religious test clause” of the Constitution.<\/p>\n

But first off, that’s not what the clause says, and second, it doesn’t apply to non-citizens. \u00a0In the first case, it prohibits\u00a0the Federal and State governments from requiring a religious test in order to hold office. \u00a0It is silent on the issue of who may be a citizen. \u00a0In the second case, it limits the action of only the governments. \u00a0It does not limit the mental or physical\u00a0activity of any person exclusive of the performance of government duties.<\/p>\n

Finally, the Constitution itself can clearly not be seen to protect non-citizens, and especially extra-territorial non-citizens, as there is no mechanism present or even possible to make such an arrangement reality. \u00a0If the rights enshrined in the Constitution as the property of all Mankind are to be protected by the Federal government against encroachment for the benefit of all Mankind, that the US government is a world government, bound to respect no sovereignty except its own. \u00a0And since the supremacy of the citizen over the government is explicit and unavoidable, then the United States would have to be open to elections with votes from all seven billion humans (limited as the law specifies for nothing but age). \u00a0If country of citizenship is not a basis for discrimination in a legal sense, then of course nothing is. \u00a0Why should a twenty-year old Saudi-Afghan Taliban get to vote while a seventeen year old American Soldier does not? \u00a0Why does a potential immigrant overseas get to claim protection under the US Constitution?<\/p>\n

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The Constitution not only lays out a framework for government, but passage and ratification of the Constitution by the States actually constituted<\/em> a new government. \u00a0The federal government is literally the creature<\/em> of the states, a thing created by them.<\/p>\n

A government exercises sovereignty over its territory and its citizens, and our Constitution specifies that government sovereignty is at the sufferage of the citizens themselves. \u00a0This point is repeatedly made in writings on how the Constitution came to be, in procedures spelled out in the Constitution itself, and explored thoroughly in associated writings by those who brought forth the Constitution itself.<\/p>\n

Citizenship is as tightly defined by custom and usage as any other term. \u00a0We all know what it means for most purposes. \u00a0Borders are also not much … Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":789,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balldiamondball.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}