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To: Nuke'm Glowing
Based on that statement, the Jim Crow laws were legal

They were found to be unconstitional. Please explain where the right to smoke is in the constitution. Is it right after the right to privacy ?

198 posted on 10/03/2002 7:02:41 AM PDT by VRWC_minion
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To: VRWC_minion
Please explain where the right to smoke is in the constitution.

I see you have ignored the explanation of the origin of rights. How convenient when you continue to put forth a false proposition.

I'll tell you again so you can continue to ignore it. The constitution enumerates the POWERS OF GOVERNMENT, it limits them. It grants no rights to individuals. The first ten amendments (often referred to as the bill of rights for those of you ignorant about such matters) reasserts some of them while making it clear in the ninth amendment that the list is not inclusive. Some of the founders opposed the amendments on the grounds that future DOLTS would attempt to make the same inane argument you advance here. They insisted on the inclusion of the ninth amendment as a compromise to allow the bill of rights to be included.

The Declaration of Independence reminds us of the origin of rights. Try reading it.

Now please fess up to being a liberal and stop the masquerade.

202 posted on 10/03/2002 7:22:58 AM PDT by Protagoras
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