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To: Texaggie79
All three are guaranteed rights bud.............

The Constitution is not the origin of rights, nor a grant of permission for their exercise.

Bill of Rights, Article 9: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Bill of Rights, Article 10: 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.

374 posted on 06/15/2002 2:40:42 PM PDT by Alan Chapman
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To: Alan Chapman
Not the origin, just the list. And those 2 little amendments you posted prove that states are well within their power to prohibit drugs, just as the founders supported state laws that prohibited witchcraft, and sodomy.......
375 posted on 06/15/2002 2:42:46 PM PDT by Texaggie79
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To: Alan Chapman

Respectively..

378 posted on 06/15/2002 2:46:32 PM PDT by Jhoffa_
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