[Texaggie79]

I only care about the intent of our constitution.

Then you must be claiming that the founders had no intention of following their own constitution... because even TJ himself supported state witchcraft laws.

[tpaine]

"Tell me, Texaggie79, what reason would the founders give for not protecting the smoking of crack by private citizens?"


hmm... perhaps the same reasons they didn't protect witchcraft in their own state. They saw it as a direct threat, and therefore a violation of other's rights.
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Witchcraft & smoking are 'direct threats' only in the stange minds of communiarian prohibitionists, which certainly does NOT describe our Founders intent in the writing of the 9th amendment.
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So you are denying the fact that many of our founders considered witchcraft to be a direct threat?

I don't care what 'many' personally considered 'threats', as I say above, I only care about the intent of our constitution.
Get a grip on your logic, little roscoe-ite.
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Then you must be claiming that the founders had no intention of following their own constitution... because even TJ himself supported state witchcraft laws. -ros-tex-coe79

See above as to what I claim.
~If~ ol TJ wanted such laws, it is immaterial to the intent of our constitution. -- States are free to write all the silly laws they want, -- as long as such laws do not violate human rights as per the constitution.