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To: rockrr

“Again, there is no enumerated “right” to secession.”

States Rights are NOT enumerated. All rights not given to the Federal government are reserved to the states.


249 posted on 08/20/2013 12:24:55 PM PDT by TexasGator
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To: TexasGator

Thank you for that lovely bit of sophistry. As long as we’re making corrections - you do know that states do not have rights - they have powers. People have rights.

And the correct wording of the Tenth Amendment is: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.


252 posted on 08/20/2013 1:39:36 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: TexasGator

Rights no enumerated are reserved to the states and the people.

Who are the people? The same people listed in the preamble, the first amendment, second amendment ect.

Not the people of a single state. The whole people.
Depending on the right asserted, it may be an individual right (of speech) or a common right of all the people acting together.


269 posted on 08/20/2013 4:51:20 PM PDT by donmeaker (Blunderbuss: A short weapon, ... now superceded in civilized countries by more advanced weaponry.)
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