This made me super mad but I think I understand where he’s coming from —
Although our courts messed it up — the Constitution SAYS I have a right to keep and bear arms.
The Constitution SAYS I have the right to free speech.
etc.
The Constitution says NOTHING about vaccines. It is silent. It provides me no protection in this area. It doesn’t say I have to take them. It doesn’t say I can refuse. It says nothing.
Dershowitz is simply saying that if your state legislature passes a Vaccine law, then you have no recourse (other than to move).
In a way, this hinges on Roe v Wade. Can I make medical choices? Do I control my body? At the federal level, does the Constitution give me this kind of power? Or is it a state decision with the Constitution playing no role at all?
I think mandatory vaccines AND abortion should be decided by your state legislature.
WRONG. ABSOLUTELY WRONG.
The constitution as written are what powers the government has - not what you’re “protected from”.Anything NOT in the constitution falls to the states to implement in their laws and constitutions and anything not written there is up to the individual.
As the constitution (and the state constitutions) say nothing about mandatory vaccines - the government has no power to compel you to take them.
The Supreme Court found that the government has a right to compel “for the public good” but that’s still debatable. (After all, the SC said that slavery was ok, abortion isn’t murder and mandatory health insurance is a tax)
vaccines are a good thing but they shouldn’t be mandatory. Now you can specify that you can’t go to public school without ‘em but that’s a whole other issue.
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(The first vaccinations were performed several years after Madison drafted the amendments that became the Bill of Rights. At the time inoculations were available, which were much riskier than vaccinations.)
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What happens if you don't get? Use physical force to give you the vaccine?
Not issue a driver's license?
Make a condition of employment in the state?
Not only do I think there will be no need for a vaccine for covid - I think HCQ will be good for the regular flu and many other diseases.