From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 1996 10:41:19 +0800
To: Alan Pugh <cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail"
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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.