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| ∀dministrator Join Date: May 2007
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| Amendment Nine: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. Just because the Constitution doesn't explicitly say "Citizens of the United States have a right to privacy" does not mean that the right to privacy doesn't exist. Thank you for listening. |
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“There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.”- Robert Green Ingersoll
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| Dog of the Soul Crusher Join Date: May 2007 Location: Sterling Heights, MI
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| Ummm, the argument you are advancing would generally be construed as a "strict constructionist" argument. I thought you should know. ![]() |
| In case it wasn't apparent, sarcasm is yet another free service I offer. Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay -- and claims a halo for his dishonesty.---- Robert A. Heinlein | |
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| Dogs don't make mistakes. | Thankfully, if those rights continue to be alienated, eventually the American people will do something about it, or, in the worst case, we shall simply have "... to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness." |
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FIRST RULE OF WRITING POSTS: Think, think, write, think again, submit. Quote:
God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to know the difference. | |
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| Dog of the Soul Crusher Join Date: May 2007 Location: Sterling Heights, MI
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| In case it wasn't apparent, sarcasm is yet another free service I offer. Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay -- and claims a halo for his dishonesty.---- Robert A. Heinlein | |
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| ∀dministrator Join Date: May 2007
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Bork, for instance, argued that the right to privacy “does not have any rooting in the Constitution” and “comes out of nowhere.” Clarence Thomas: "...just like Justice Stewart, I can find neither in the Bill of Rights nor any part of the Constitution a general right of privacy, or as the Court terms it today, the liberty of the person both in its spatial and more transcendent dimensions." Stewart: "I could find no general right of privacy in the Bill of Rights, in any other part of the Constitution, or in any case ever before decided by this Court." (1965) | |
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| Dog of the Soul Crusher Join Date: May 2007 Location: Sterling Heights, MI
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There is also a qualitative difference between an implied right (such as privacy) and an enumerated right (such as freedom of the Press) in the context of legal opinion. This may be the genesis of these quotes, but I don't know, since the context is missing. | |
| In case it wasn't apparent, sarcasm is yet another free service I offer. Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay -- and claims a halo for his dishonesty.---- Robert A. Heinlein | ||
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