Platapus, I appreciate your links to the discussions on the Ninth and Tenth Amendments. What gets me is the mention that judges disagree on what rights were meant but not mentioned. It's like they are blind to the concept of "All rights belong to the people", and "Government has no rights". Or, as the the document the Constitution stems from says "...that to secure these rights governments are instituted among men."
How do they miss it idea that we make laws to protect ourselves from each other, and that's where it begins and ends?
"The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the states are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as to everything respecting foreign nations."
-Thomas Jefferson; letter to Gideon Granger, August 13, 1800
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