To: Junior
Agreed but there is no prohibition against legislating about rights not enumerated in the Constitution. Otherwise there is a "right" to everything and everything. I could list silly examples but I expect you already understand my point.
310 posted on
01/19/2006 10:07:58 AM PST by
rhombus
To: rhombus
"Agreed but there is no prohibition against legislating about rights not enumerated in the Constitution."
Then the Constitution is a meaningless piece of paper. If the Constitution doesn't specifically empower the government to do something, the government has no legitimate power to do that thing. Otherwise, the government would be empowered to do anything and everything and the Constitution would have no weight at all.
314 posted on
01/19/2006 10:14:15 AM PST by
CarolinaGuitarman
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