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To: Non-Sequitur
Me - “Your now claiming ‘implied’ authority? If the Bill of Rights ( Is a list of Shall not )How does the General Government infringe upon “shall not be infringed”? “

You - “No implied to it. The power to oppose insurrections is specifically stated in Article I, Section 8.”

Is your view ( States supporting the STRICT interpretation of said Constitution ) are Insurrectionist?

Article I, Section 8. Enumerates certain authority's - Regulating the Bill of Rights - isn't one of them.

Ninth Amendment: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Mr. Madison: "It has been said, by way of objection to a bill of rights....that in the Federal Government they are unnecessary, because the powers are enumerated, and it follows, that all that are not granted by the constitution are retained; that the constitution is a bill of powers, the great residuum being the rights of the people; and, therefore, a bill of rights cannot be so necessary as if the residuum was thrown into the hands of the Government. I admit that these arguments are not entirely without foundation, but they are not as conclusive to the extent it has been proposed. It is true the powers of the general government are circumscribed; they are directed to particular objects; but even if government keeps within those limits, it has certain discretionary powers with respect to the means, which may admit of abuse."

393 posted on 03/15/2010 5:45:29 AM PDT by Idabilly
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To: Idabilly
Article I, Section 8. Enumerates certain authority's - Regulating the Bill of Rights - isn't one of them.

But the power for "for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions" is.

Mr. Madison

Mr. Madison: "It is the nature & essence of a compact that it is equally obligatory on the parties to it, and of course that no one of them can be liberated therefrom without the consent of the others, or such a violation or abuse of it by the others, as will amount to a dissolution of the compact. Applying this view of the subject to a single community, it results, that the compact being between the individuals composing it, no individual or set of individuals can at pleasure, break off and set up for themselves, without such a violation of the compact as absolves them from its obligations."

395 posted on 03/15/2010 6:01:53 AM PDT by Non-Sequitur
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