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Politics : 2000:The Make-or-Break Election -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Father Terrence who wrote (729)	8/24/2000 11:32:22 PM
From: q39	Respond to of 1013

What happened? No posts in a week. Interesting discussion. History lesson: Constitution was meant as a framework to establish the federal government and limit its powers, and to limit certain powers of the states (such as coining money). Everything not spelled out in the Constitution is left to the states(See Amendment X). I am sure this phrase had to be added explicitly to get the requisite number of states to sign up. As the author of the initial post suggested, the country has met some difficulty by the Supreme Court finding things in the Constitution that were not and have never been there in order to enact law that could not be passed legislatively by people accountable to the electorate (Roe v. Wade the shining example), in essence circumventing Amendment X. The phrase "inalienable rights" is from the Declaration of Independence, not the constitution. The first one mentioned is "life". Read both: nara.gov They are not all that difficult, and you don't have to be a lawyer to understand them. You may need to be one to really twist them. Q