>
> The Constitution applies to each and every person within the borders
> of the United States whether they like it or not, whether they agree
> or not, and whether they want it or not. It doesn't matter how long
> ago the contract was made, or how many people voted on it, or how
big
> the country was at that time.
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Actually, Paul, it does matter how long ago a contract was made.
Since a contract is an agreement between 2 or more parties, the
contract will expire with the death of the last of the signators.
There can be no contract which imposes its terms on parties not
signatory to it in the present (Boyd and I can make a contract in
which we each agree to pay the other a fee when either of us starts
his car engine; Boyd and I cannot make a contract which would extend
those terms to obligate Paul to pay us a fee each time he starts his
car engine!) Such a contract would expire (at the latest) when 1 of
us dies - as there would be no one left to fulfill the reciprocity
(reciprocity is a requirement of a valid contract - I give you
something, you give me something in return) agreements in the
contract.
No more so can there be a contract which imposes its terms on parties
not signatory to it in the future. (If Boyd and I can't extend our
contract to Paul in the present, how can it be possible to extend it
to someone yet unborn?)
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> If you live within the borders of the United States, you're OBLIGED
to
> adhere to it. If you don't, any claims that your rights are being
> infringed upon when you try to smuggle goods in, are laughable.
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What is the nature of my OBLIGATION to adhere to the constitution?
The constitution itself requires no such obligation.
There is not one clause in the constitution which obligates
individuals to its provisions - indeed none of the provisions of the
constitution even applies to individuals - whether they live within
the "borders" (the constitution says nothing about "borders") of the
United State or not. The constitution was a contract between its
signators to establish a certain type of federal government - its
provisions, even if valid, apply only to that government, not to the
individuals subject to that government (even assmuming the notion
of "subject to the government").
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