[SarahW]

One point - our rights are not limited to those enumerated in the bill of rights....

In fact at the constitutional convention, many were opposed to a bill of rights on the basis that the government might point to it and attempt to limit rights to those on the list.

So they stuck in a clause specifically to avoid that... the constitution makes plain that the listing is in no way meant to limit or disparage other rights retained by the people.

For Ann Coulter to say "We have a list of very few rights" is the worst fear realized. She's mistaken, and in a big way.

[hopespringseternal]

For Ann Coulter to say "We have a list of very few rights" is the worst fear realized. She's mistaken, and in a big way.

More important is the fact that our rights are supposed to be safeguarded by the fact of a limited government. If we had a limited government, the Supreme Court wouldn't be parsing commas to figure out if the feds have the power to ban working toilets.

[El Gato]

For Ann Coulter to say "We have a list of very few rights" is the worst fear realized. She's mistaken, and in a big way.

Well not really, since the enumerated list of rights, including those in the main body of the Constitution as well as those in amendments one through eight, is not long. It's just that those aren't all our rights.

[aruanan]

So they stuck in a clause specifically to avoid that... the constitution makes plain that the listing is in no way meant to limit or disparage other rights retained by the people.

For Ann Coulter to say "We have a list of very few rights" is the worst fear realized. She's mistaken, and in a big way.

So sad.

[CobaltBlue]

>>For Ann Coulter to say "We have a list of very few rights" is the worst fear realized.<<

This argument wouldn't exist if it weren't for Roe v. Wade. Roe v. Wade drives some conservatives so crazy that they've rewritten constitutional history in an effort to get rid of it.

Sorta like Brown v. Board of Education drove Southerners crazy.

But for Supreme Court opinions causing trouble, I still think that Plessy v. Ferguson caused the worst trouble.

Or you could argue that the trouble all started with Marbury v. Madison. Nowhere in the Constitution does it expressly state that the Supreme Court has the right of judicial review, to declare laws unconstitutional.