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Pastimes : The Boxing Ring Revived

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To: Lane3 who wrote (6720)7/3/2003 6:56:43 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) of 7720
 
I think the 9th amendment was intended to discourage the government from controlling anything that isn't specifically barred from their control by a constitutional right and if it has any effect along those lines then I am grateful for the amendments existence but it doesn't actual give any specific rights and I don't think it makes legal or logical sense to view the amendment as saying that we have a constitutional right to anything not specifically covered by a power granted to the federal government. For one thing it would lead to supposed rights that where directly contradictory. For another it would leave the states with no power because while the federal government is granted specific powers the states get their powers from the 10th amendment giving all powers not specifically granted to the feds, to "he States respectively, or to the people." Such an interpretation of the 9th amendment would give the federal judiciary unlimited power over all state decisions. I don't think that is a good idea and I don't think it was what the writers of the constitution intended.

Tim
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