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Old 01-28-11, 04:11 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by August View Post
See my post #11 in this thread.
I'm not sure, August. Are you suggesting that health "as a right" exists in the US because the Bill of Rights suggests that, since someone says its' so, it is? I'm not trying to be truculent; I'm just not following your train of thought on the Tenth Amendment.

The way I read that, if the Fed doesn't call it a right, nor deny it as a right, then the States (individually) may decide to enforce a right on their own, pursuant to the wishes of their people; further, that the people themselves may decide what is a right.

Now, my need for amplification is this: Is the Amendment suggesting that, because the Constitution doesn't enumerate or deny the right of health, it is therefore an allowed right because an individual calls it so?

I really am not trying to be contrary; I am just trying to understand.
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