> On Apr 1, 2016, at 7:12 PM, Jim Saklad jimdoc@icloud.com [iPad] <iPad@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> > Is it within the courts authority to tell the FBI to help Apple enhance Apple's security?
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> I do not know.
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> Courts have already ruled that the 1st Amendment of the US Constitution, which limits the government's ability to LIMIT speech by individuals and corporations, also limits the government's ability to COMPEL speech.
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> AND have ruled that computer programming — code — IS "speech" for this purpose.
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> On the other hand, a main purpose of the Constitution is to protect the people from the government, not vice versa.
I don't agree, Jim. The purpose of any civil constitution is to make the machine of government run effectively and smoothly. The people are always the greatest impediment to that.
Goals set out in the preamble to the US constitution:
1. Make the individual states work smoothly together (there were thirteen of them).
2. Make clear rules for avoiding and settling disputes ("establish justice").
3. Keep public disorder at bay ("insure domestic tranquility").
4. Keep outside aggression from endangering the state.
5. "Promote the general welfare" (a supremely vague goal).
6. Satisfy people's desire for individual autonomy ("secure the blessings of liberty").
Posted by: David Smith <david.smith.14916@gmail.com>
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