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So you think the Founders believed in limited government up to our borders, and unlimited government beyond?
I suspect the Founders would have had differing views on the topic; remember, some, like Hamilton, believed that the acts of several states in seizing and selling assets (including in some cases assets on the high seas) of Tories who fled the country and claimed no US citizenship were improper and, once the constituion existed, unconstitutional. So they would have applied the constitution to protect assets of aliens abroad from the federal government.
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Several others also believed in summarily hanging enemy combatants and soldiers accused of treason - so there was a wide view out there.
