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To: MrLeRoy
The Ninth does not say WHICH unenumerated rights are "retained by the people"---

Which logically would mean that all "others" are..

and it CERTAINLY does not say that ALL unenumerated rights are retained by the people.

Another bold/weird idea. Why would we limit our own unenumerated rights, without specifically delegating such power to our governments?

The Tenth indicates that since the power to restrict abortion is not "delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States,"

The power to violate a womens [or any persons] rights are prohibited by both the supremacy clause & the 14th.

is this power is "reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." It does not decide whether any given state or its people have that power, but leaves it up to each state's constitution.

States powers are lmited by the constitution. Live with that fact.


296 posted on 10/01/2003 11:36:13 AM PDT by tpaine ( I'm trying to be Mr Nice Guy, but politics keep getting in me way. ArnieRino for Governator)
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To: tpaine
The Ninth does not say WHICH unenumerated rights are "retained by the people"---

Which logically would mean that all "others" are..

Rubbish; those rights may have been ceded to states through their constitutions.

Why would we limit our own unenumerated rights, without specifically delegating such power to our governments?

See above.

The power to violate a womens [or any persons] rights are prohibited by both the supremacy clause & the 14th.

Which part? "Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed"?

States powers are lmited by the constitution.

Some are. You have yet to demonstrate that the power to restrict or ban abortion is among them.

299 posted on 10/01/2003 11:45:42 AM PDT by MrLeRoy (The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. - Jefferson)
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