Re: Regulation of citizen-alien communications

[jim bell <jimbell@pacifier.com>]

At 01:21 AM 2/12/96 -0500, lmccarth@cs.umass.edu wrote:
>Padgett writes:
>> Gov does have the right (in fact the duty) to regulate communications 
>> between citizens and non-citizens/sites in other lands
>[...and later...]
>> "...provide for the common defense"
>> "To regulate Commerce with foreign nations..."
>> "...or in adhering to their enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort."
>> 
>> There are the bytes - try reading them in context.
>
>Familiar phrases indeed. Now, it seems to me that the Commerce Clause and
>other Constitutional portions you cited could apply as well to 
>communications between two U.S. citizens inside the U.S. as they do to the
>citizen-alien communications you mentioned. Yet if I read you correctly
>earlier, you don't think the USG has the right to regulate those
>communications. Why the distinction ?


I suspect that Padgett's entire view of reality is built on quicksand.