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To: aquila48

Massachusetts, Georgia, and Connecticut ratified the Bill of Rights in 1939. We have been fighting over the basics for a very long time. It’s still the same fight: Are our rights limited only to those specifically protected (and should that list be interpreted as narrowly as possible), or are government’s powers over us limited to only those specifically enumerated (and should that list be interpreted as narrowly as possible)?


12 posted on 07/07/2017 11:55:42 PM PDT by Pollster1 ("Governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed")
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To: Pollster1

That 1939 vote was on the 150th anniversary of those Amendments known as The Bill of Rights becoming law. It was symbolic. Massachusetts, Georgia and Connecticut weren’t contesting The Bill of Rights all that time, it’s just that a sufficient number voted in favor therefore their votes were moot.


16 posted on 07/08/2017 12:17:56 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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To: Pollster1

Peruse the Ninth Amendment.


34 posted on 07/08/2017 4:28:08 AM PDT by monocle
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