[A Navy Vet]

Scalia "thinks there are no such thing as unenumerated rights in the Constitution which fundamentally alters the way in which you read the liberty clause of the 14th Amendment and a whole range of other things,"

Can someone explain to be what this babbling is about? Last I heard, Scalia believes there's no such thing as "unenumerated" powers of the fedgov. And what does that have to do with the 14th Amendment? And where is a "liberty clause" in the that Amendment? It's not in my copy of the Constitution. What is this guy rambling about?

[wagglebee]

Amendment XIV:
Section. 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

This was passed during Reconstruction to eliminate any future attempts at secession or to exert state sovereignty. It has been used by judicial activists to justify such things as personal privacy and as a result everything else that this nonexistent "right" contains.