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To: Talisker; All
"If you're referring to: "No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States;" then I'm afraid it doesn't apply to "constitutionally enumerated rights.""

With all due respect Talisker, your assertion that the “privileges and immunities" indicated in Section 1 of the 14th Amendment (14A) don’t apply to constitutionally enumerated rights is incorrect. This is because the congressional record shows that Rep. John Bingham, the main author of Section 1 of 14A, had clearly indicated the first eight amendments to the Constitution as examples of constitutional privileges and immunities that 14A applies to the states.

"Mr. Speaker, that the scope and meaning of the limitations imposed by the first section, fourteenth amendment of the Constitution may be more fully understood, permit me to say that the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States, as contradistinguished from citizens of a State, are chiefly [emphasis added] defined in the first eight amendments to the Constitution of the United States." — John Bingham, Appendix to the Congressional Globe (See middle column.)

14 posted on 06/01/2015 6:31:02 PM PDT by Amendment10
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To: Amendment10
"...the privileges and immunities of citizens of the United States, as contradistinguished from citizens of a State..."

"Citizens of a State" are "We the People."

con·tra·dis·tin·guish
\-ˈtiŋ-gwish\
transitive verb
:to distinguish by contrasting qualities

con·trast
\kən-ˈtrast, ˈkän-ˌ\
verb
: to be different especially in a way that is very obvious
: to compare (two people or things) to show how they are different

18 posted on 06/02/2015 12:20:42 AM PDT by Talisker (One who commands, must obey.)
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