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Bingo. Only clarification I'd make is to this: >This means your government can only take rights away from you but it doesn't have the power to ever grant you
by daenz 7y ago
Bingo. Only clarification I'd make is to this:
>This means your government can only take rights away from you but it doesn't have the power to ever grant you a right.
My understanding is that the government is unable to grant nor deny you the right, only infringe upon it. The right is always there by virtue of your existence, so it can only be infringed upon.
- inagfbdfys6a3nf 7y agoRight, I misspoke. Thank you. It's a subtle difference but the implications are massive. For anybody following along (since daenz seems more informed than me already), the 9th Amendment and the discussions that led up to it flesh out the idea that the Bill of Rights merely guarantees that certain rights won't be infringed even though many other rights also exist but were not explicitly mentioned. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninth_Amendment_to_the_United_...) The biggest modern example I can think of is the non-enumerated yet Constitutionally guaranteed (according to the Supreme Court) Right to Privacy which played a pivotal role in the Roe vs. Wade decision.