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Originally Posted by Aramike
Your going outside on Tuesdays is quite different from a building being erected as an inciteful landmark of sorts. One impacts only you, the other impacts many others.
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But the question was about the Tenth Amendment and its impact on this particular freedom. The Muslims paid the fees, and got the permit. Now you show me where the Constitution gives you the right to stop it.
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Excuse me, but please show me the Amendment protecting everyone's rights to build whatever they want wherever they want...
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Ninth Amendment. James Madison specifically wanted that one to protect any right that he forgot to list in the first Ten. People have a right to do anything they want, as long as they don't break the law or harm other people's right to do the same. If McDonalds can build a building there then so can the Muslims. Equal protection under the law, it's called.
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By your definition zoning itself is a violation of the 10th, yet SCOTUS has already said it is not. Except that my comment had a basis in reality (someone Bush-hating with little grasp of the actual issue). Yours made no sense.
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My definition? When did I give a definition?
Actually Safe-Keeper's original statement slamming Bush had some validity, since he only accused Bush of not upholding the Constitution where it didn't suit him. Argue that all you like, but your reply had nothing to do with it. You instead upheld a time-honored tradition of accusing someone of holding his opinion due to preconcieved beliefs, whether you have evidence of that or not. My comment asked if you weren't doing the same? Wrong I may be, because I don't know you any more than you know Safe-Keeper, but within the context my retort to you made every bit as much sense as yours to him.