On Tue, 01 Aug 2000 15:02:01 GMT, Bob Crownfield 
was kind enough to write:

>Jeff Bishop wrote:
>> 
>> On Tue, 01 Aug 2000 02:24:46 GMT, Bob Crownfield 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> >If there were no bill of rights,
>> >then you would have no legal basis to claim them as rights.
>> >If there were no second amendment,
>> >then there would be no right to carry and bear arms.
>> 
>> The Ninth Amendment was supposed to keep people from reading the Bill
>> of Rights that way, but unfortunately, many courts do it anyway.
>
>It clearly does, but if a right is not listed somewhere, it is open to
>argument, hence the Bill of Rights enumerating them.

The Bill of Rights does not enumerate rights; it proscribes specific
actions by the government.

Making an exhaustive list of human rights would be impractical.  Read
Steve Hix's explanation in my .sig.


-- 
The pro-control side clearly believes that U.S. laws are based on the
"everything is prohibited unless specifically allowed" model, rather
than the "everything is allowed unless specifically prohibited" model
that U.S. law actually uses. - Steve Hix in talk.politics.guns