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from: Bob Crownfield
date: 2000-08-01 00:00:00
subject: Re: CA: STOP AB273 (REGISTRATION & LICENSING)

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.

-- 
Bob Crownfield,  Crownfield@Home.com
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Now diving the Pacific in the LA Area.
"Protect freedoms before they become extinct."

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