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"Fully applied, this discovered emanation should be able to strike down all laws prohibiting prostitution and illicit drug consumption (for example), both of which would be damaging to our society and Republic and would never have been the intent of the Founding Fathers."

That is correct, properly applied. And, again you are revealing your old, formerlib, type thinking.

Consumption of prostitution services and ingestible chemicals is no different than consumption of any other services or products.

Free people, I repeat, free people, make the decisions to consume or not to consume for themselves. It is a person's own morality, frugality, or self-control and moderation that is to deter or prevent consumption of services or products that may be destructive to their life or lifestyle.

I, for example, do not and will not consume gambling services, even though it is legal. I have never consumed prostitution services up to this point in my life, while illegal, and I would not consume prostitution services even if it was legal. Again, that is what free people do. Free people make their own decisions for themselves.

Prostitution existed and quite frankly quite a bit of chemical consumption existed, and both were legal, when the republic was founded.

Cocaine and heroine were only made unconstituionally illegal in the 20th century.

Remember, it took a constitutional amemdment to ban the consumption of alcohol. Why? Because the 9th amendment guaranteed the right for free people to consume the chemical of their choice.

Rights cannot be usurped, denied, or disparaged by laws. Rights can only be altered, diminished, or denied by constitutional amendments.

#####Remember, it took a constitutional amemdment to ban the consumption of alcohol. Why? Because the 9th amendment guaranteed the right for free people to consume the chemical of their choice.#####

Wrong! Many states and localities banned alcoholic beverages prior to the prohibition amendment. It took a constitutional amendment to make the ban federal.

The Ninth Amendment doesn't guarantee the people any rights whatsoever. Its purpose is to guarantee that matters upon which the Constitution is silent are left to the states to decide. It thus bans the federal courts from acting upon any issue when the Constitution is silent on that issue. On the subject of alcoholic beverages, that meant the federal courts couldn't stop states from being "wet" or being "dry".

"Bad men cannot make good citizens. It is when a people forget God that tyrants forge their chains. A vitiated state of morals, a corrupted public conscience, is incompatible with freedom. No free government, or the blessings of liberty, can be preserved to any people but by a firm adherence to justice, moderation, temperance, frugality, and virtue; and by a frequent recurrence to fundamental principles." —Patrick Henry

...and I would not consume prostitution services even if it was legal. Again, that is what free people do. Free people make their own decisions for themselves.

Actually, prostitution was largely made illegal at the end of the 19th century in the United States. Surprisingly, sexual morality did not play a factor in the movement to make it illegal, but the social pathologies (STD's, illegitimate children born into poverty, women becoming trapped into the life of prostitution, and the abhorrent actions of the pimps) that accompanied prostitution proved to be its undoing.

Many folks point to the legal prostitution that occurs in places such as the Netherlands while conveniently ignoring the heavy governmental regulation that dominates that industry in such locales.