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The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
to take a single step beyond the boundaries thus specially drawn is to take possession of a boundless field of power, no longer susceptible of any definition.
The Constitution is a written instrument. As such, its meaning does not alter. That which it meant when it was adopted, it means now.
Originally posted by jrod
To promote the general welfare of the people was one of many reasons the constitution was established. Our health care system as it is now is failing the people and many of this country citizens realize that and are okay with the attempt to pass Obama care. Ironically many of people who oppose this bill the sames who got screwed by Bush's Big Pharma deal. American politics at it's finest.
Originally posted by jrod
To promote the general welfare of the people was one of many reasons the constitution was established. Our health care system as it is now is failing the people and many of this country citizens realize that and are okay with the attempt to pass Obama care. Ironically many of people who oppose this bill the sames who got screwed by Bush's Big Pharma deal. American politics at it's finest.
The Ninth Amendment had been mentioned infrequently in decisions of the Supreme Court4 until it became the subject of some exegesis by several of the Justices in Griswold v. Connecticut.5 There a statute prohibiting use of contraceptives was voided as an infringement of the right of marital privacy. Justice Douglas, writing the opinion of the Court, asserted that the “specific guarantees in the Bill of Rights have penumbras, formed by emanations from those guarantees that help give them life and substance.”6 Thus, while privacy is nowhere mentioned, it is one of the values served and protected by the First Amendment, through its protection of associational rights, and by the Third, the Fourth, and the Fifth Amendments as well. The Justice recurred to the text of the Ninth Amendment, apparently to support the thought that these penumbral rights are protected by one Amendment or a complex of Amendments despite the absence of a specific reference. Justice Goldberg, concurring, devoted several pages to the Amendment.