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- From: cj@eno.wpd.sgi.com (C.J. Silverio)
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Re: Go read the Constitution
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- Date: 12 Aug 92 17:28:33 GMT
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- eeb1@ellis.uchicago.edu writes:
- |dgp@atlas.wustl.edu (Don Porter) writes:
- |><lx3mnfj.boserj@netcom.com> (Jeffrey Boser) writes:
- |>|Life is not guarnteed by any legal document
- |>|we have. Go read the constitution some time and look at the parts
- |>|under 'privacy' and 'defence'.
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- |There's no generic right to privacy in the Constitution. The
- |Supreme Court looked at all the places where it provided *specific*
- |rights of privacy (illegal search and seizure, no troops quartered
- |in private houses in peacetime, etc.) and somehow decided that all
- |of them together made up a generic right to privacy. In other
- |words, the Supreme Court made it all up.
-
- Thank the founding fathers for the Ninth Amendment:
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- 9th Amendment
- The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not
- be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
-
- This one is supposed to save us from the attitude displayed
- above, which I find frightening to see in someone who's on
- my side. The men who wrote our Constitution didn't want to
- enumerate rights, for fear of just that attitude. Sometimes I
- wish they'd refrained... but I can just picture the horrors of
- tyranny we'd now be enjoying without the Bill of Rights. Look
- at the horrors we now enjoy *with* it.
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- Maybe it's time to start working for a "right to privacy"
- amendment.
-
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- cj@eno.wpd.sgi.com C J Silverio/Brahms Gang/Berkeley CA 94720
- "All to well bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of
- the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must
- be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal
- laws must protect, and to violate would be oppression." -- T. Jefferson
-