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DesEtoiles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Sep-11-05 11:54 PM
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Remember: The Consitution is a FLOOR - NOT a ceiling
Edited on Sun Sep-11-05 11:54 PM by NormaR
So when you hear people say Roe is a state's rights issue - IT IS NOT.

States have NO authority to take away the fundamental rights guaranteed by the FEDERAL constitution.

And the Ninth Amendment, with the concept of natural law, guarantees the right of privacy.
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BOHICA06 Donating Member (886 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 12:04 AM
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1. Fortunately or Unfortunately ....
the constitution only guarantees what a majority of nine justices says it guarantees.
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TahitiNut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Sep-12-05 12:16 AM
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2. The Constitution limits the authority of the federal government ...
... it does not limit the rights of the People! Any pretense to the contrary is the worst of all possible interpretations. Any assumption that the rights of the People are defined and delimited by the Constitution is as 'anti-American' as can be. The Constitution rests upon those very rights for its legitimacy, without which it is a 'quaint' charade.
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