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- From: gary@colossus.cgd.ucar.edu (Gary Strand)
- Subject: Re: Amendment 2
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- wl> Warner Losh
- gs> Gary Strand
-
- gs> The USC doesn't endow rights. It limits the federal government's power.
-
- wl> This is flat out wrong. Almost all of the amendments to the USC grant
- specific or general rights to the people. The original body of the USC
- didn't say word one about citizen's rights, but the USC as it stands today
- says quite a bit about it.
-
- Show me in the following where the government grants rights to US citizens:
-
- 1) Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or
- prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of
- speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to
- assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
-
- 2) A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free
- State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be
- infringed.
-
- 3) The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers,
- and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be
- violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause,
- supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the
- place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
-
- 4) Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor
- cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
-
- 5) The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be
- construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
-
- 6) 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.
-
- 7) The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied
- or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
-
- 8) The right of citizens of the United States, who are 18 years of age or
- older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or
- any state on account of age.
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-
- There's big difference between saying "I won't do X", and "I give you -X".
- Please learn it.
-
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- Gary Strand Opinions stated herein are mine alone and are
- strandwg@ncar.ucar.edu not representative of NCAR, UCAR, or the NSF
-