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.
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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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