From: jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>
Date: Sat, 27 Jan 1996 08:29:29 +0800
To: perry@piermont.com
Subject: Re: "Gentlemen do not read each other's mail"
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At 09:04 AM 1/26/96 -0600, Mike Tighe wrote:
>Perry E. Metzger writes:
>
>>I am a funny sort of person. I don't believe that governments should
>>be able to do anything that individuals cannot. If it is bad for me to
>>steal, it is also bad for a government official to steal. If it is bad
>>for me to listen in on my neighbor's phone calls, it is bad for the
>>government, too.
>
>I do not see anything funny, but you are at odds with the Constitution,
>where the people have granted the government certain rights that they have
>not granted to themselves. But it seems we may be making progress at
>getting those rights ourselves.

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.


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