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Thank you. I am intimately familiar with the Consitution and the laws derived thereof. The Ninth Amendment is a dead letter for eminently practical reasons - namely, there is no practical way to distinguish what is and is not a right under the Ninth Amendment. You assert that the Ninth Amendment frees you from having to be searched before boarding. I suggest that the Ninth Amendment gives me the right to free health care for the rest of my natural life, daily sexual favors from the female citizen of my choice, and a salary for sitting around and watching TV. Unfortunately for both of us, the Ninth Amendment does not speak to which of us is correct in our assertions of our rights - indeed, we both could be right under the rather spare language of the Ninth Amendment...

"Thank you. I am intimately familiar with the Consitution and the laws derived thereof...I suggest that the Ninth Amendment gives me the right to free health care for the rest of my natural life, daily sexual favors from the female citizen of my choice, and a salary for sitting around and watching TV."

You have no comprehension of the scope, nature or context of the Constitution of the United States of America based upon such a destitute interpretation of the Ninth Amendment.

Moreover, I doubt any amount of education could remedy such an ignorant state.

To: exodus
Thank you. I am intimately familiar with the Consitution and the laws derived thereof. The Ninth Amendment is a dead letter for eminently practical reasons - namely, there is no practical way to distinguish what is and is not a right under the Ninth Amendment. You assert that the Ninth Amendment frees you from having to be searched before boarding. I suggest that the Ninth Amendment gives me the right to free health care for the rest of my natural life, daily sexual favors from the female citizen of my choice, and a salary for sitting around and watching TV. Unfortunately for both of us, the Ninth Amendment does not speak to which of us is correct in our assertions of our rights - indeed, we both could be right under the rather spare language of the Ninth Amendment...
# 634 by general_re
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I don't assert that the 9th Amendment frees me from being searched. That's the 4th Amendment.

You make no sense, general_re .

Free health care would require someone sacrifice their money or time for your benefit. Daily sexual favors from the woman of your choice would be rape. Getting a salary for doing nothing can never be confused with a God-given right.

You think that the 9th Amendment doesn't apply anymore, general_re? Do you think that the men that wrote it into law were too stupid to realize that it wasn't specific?

The 9th Amendment hasn't been repealed, general_re. It's still the law of the land.

Here's the kicker, general_re. Even if the 9th Amendment had never been written, we'd still have the right to own property. We'd still have the right to get married. We'd still have the right to decide what job we wanted to work at.

And, general_re, we'd still have the right to travel.

I suggest that the Ninth Amendment gives me the right to free health care for the rest of my natural life, daily sexual favors from the female citizen of my choice, and a salary for sitting around and watching TV. Unfortunately for both of us, the Ninth Amendment does not speak to which of us is correct in our assertions of our rights - indeed, we both could be right under the rather spare language of the Ninth Amendment...

Baloney. You don't have a right to something that belongs to someone else. The founders, and the general population at the time understood this.

Why are you arguing like democrat?

You are so full of it, your eyes must be brown (or maybe green if it's started to turn rancid). A RIGHT can only be what you yourself can do BY yourself. I, for example, have a RIGHT to offer my services to whomever wants to pay me for them. I do not have a "right" to a job or a right to FORCE someone to hire me. I have a RIGHT to life. I have a RIGHT to do what ever I must (justly) to support and protect my life. This does NOT grant me the "right" to forcibly live at someone else's expense. I have a RIGHT to hang out with whomever I please that will welcome my company. I do not have a "right" to force my company on an unwilling individual or group of individuals. The Ninth Amendment is not dead. It is ignored by simpletons like you and by gooberment power-grabbers. Perhaps ALSO like you.