I don’t know what happened to the reply I sent you, so I’ll try again. It sounded pretty emphatic to me. When Tom coburn asked Elena Kagen if she believed that there are rights inherent to us, she said she only believed in rights that came from the Constitution and from the laws. I agree with you that these rights are incorporated in the ninth and tenth amendment of the Constitution which I believe Rush mentioned as well
Yikes! What makes the Constitution special is that it recognizes that the citizens have rights which are inherent and cannot be ignored. That the state serves the people, not the other way around.