How does a nation built upon the concept of natural rights in turn deny non-Americans those same innate rights?<p>It is a crime what the NSA is doing.  Against Americans, the world and the first principles of governance (i.e. classical liberalism).<p>If Jefferson&#x27;s notion of an Empire of Library was alive and vibrant today, the target would not be Canada but the United States government.<p>Jefferson on defending the concept of popular sovereignty etc all over the world-<p>&quot;...we should then have only to include the North [Canada] in our confederacy...and we should have such an empire for liberty as she has never surveyed since the creation: &amp; I am persuaded no constitution was ever before so well calculated as ours for extensive empire &amp; self government.&quot; - Jefferson to James Madison, 27 April 1809<p>&quot;where this progress will stop no-one can say. Barbarism has, in the meantime, been receding before the steady step of amelioration; and will in time, I trust, disappear from the earth&quot; - Jefferson to William Ludlow, 6 September 1824