Re: statute-presidential protection

[Jon Roland]

There is a fundamental constitutional problem with this statute. Unless the zone 
around the president is on non-state possession territory, or territory ceded 
under the terms of U.S. Const. Art. I Sec. 8 Cl. 17, the federal government does 
not have jurisdiction to do what they are attempting to do. It is a clear 
attempt to usurp jurisdiction. Now, in principle each state legislature could 
cede a spherical or other shaped zone around the president that moved with him, 
but that would seem to be in conflict with the fixed nature of such a parcel 
understood by the Framers when I:8:17 was drafted, and even so, no state has 
done that.

For more on this see
http://www.constitution.org/juris/fedjur1.htm
http://www.constitution.org/juris/fjur/fed_jur.htm
-- Jon
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