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Re: Santorum Fails In His Effort To Pervert The Constitution
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Thu, 22 Jul 2004 10:32:45 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, David Laswell wrote:
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Christopher L. Weeks wrote:
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Amendment IX - Construction of Constitution. Ratified 12/15/1791.
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be
construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
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That doesn’t give you the right to marry. It gives the states the right to
either give or deny you the right to marry. Or to abstain from the matter
altogether and let the local county and city governments deal with it.
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False.
I know you’re a big states’ rights guy. Actually, I am too. But one of the
things that these sections of the constitution do is spell out limitations on
the federal and state governments. The supreme court has supported that the
rights granted by common law are rights for Americans, though the application of
and participation in the UCC (which augments and formalizes the common law) is
somewhat weird. If you want to suggest things so radically divergent from common
application of the law, you need to provide some kind of justification, not just
your say-so.
In any case, I think it’s pretty clear to everyone (but you?) that the ninth
amendment is saying that Americans citizens (not states) have a bunch of other
rights that were not enumerated in the first eight amendments.
Chris
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