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To: Dr. Frank
Each article of the constitution is called an amendment! Article 4 is the 4th Amendment. Haven’t you ever read the Constitution?
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74 posted on 10/18/2001 11:21:36 AM PDT by thtr
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To: thtr
Please drop the issue thtr. It's a loser for you. Articles and Amendments are two different beasts. Article 1 establishes the Legislative branch. Amendment 1 protects free speech, religion, etc. Article 2 establishes the Executive branch. Amendment 2 provides for a well regulated militia. Etc, etc.
75 posted on 10/18/2001 11:25:01 AM PDT by DryFly
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To: thtr
Article 4 is the 4th Amendment. Haven’t you ever read the Constitution?

You sure are funny. Here is the 4th Amendment:

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

And here, for the record, is "Article the fourth" of the original Bill of Rights, two of which were apparently not ratified:

A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

We call it Amendment II now, since it was the second one in this list which was ratified.

However, here is what you cited to me way back in your post #51:

Article IV : Section 2. The Citizens of each State shall be entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States

As you can see, this is neither "the Fourth Amendment" nor is it "Article the fourth" of the Bill of Rights (the Second Amendment).

It is the opening of Article IV, Section 2 of the Constitution. Just like you correctly said in your post #51.

Get it?

76 posted on 10/18/2001 11:26:49 AM PDT by Dr. Frank fan
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To: thtr
Each article of the constitution is called an amendment! Article 4 is the 4th Amendment. Haven’t you ever read the Constitution?

Ah no. Sorry but you are wrong.
That's why they're called amendments; look the word up, it means an addition to... something.
It does not become an entity on its own, a separate item in itself, it just makes the original longer or bigger.

That the first 10 amendments are referred to as the "Bill of Rights", is a semantic convenience to identify them as the first ten, adopted at the same time as the main body of the Constitution when it was officially adopted (but not yet ratified).

116 posted on 10/18/2001 2:00:43 PM PDT by Publius6961
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