Re:Gitmo Is Killing Me
by Zak on Monday April 15, 2013 @11:26AM
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The Constitution does not purport to give rights to anybody. It declares that certain things are rights and prohibits the US government from violating them.
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You're confusing the declaration of independence, a fluff document, with the Constitution, a legal document. Fluffy language aside, in the Anglo-American tradition, rights derive from legal documents (or precedents), and the right to habeas corpus or a jury trial derives from the Constitution and is circumscribed the the territorial jurisdiction of the Constitution.