"Gentlemen do not read each other's mail"

[Alan Pugh]

>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'.

amp