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To: domenad
No. But it is the first in DC.

Kinda makes you wonder if someone finally cracked a history book.

"Laws abridging the natural right of the citizen should be restrained by rigorous constructions within their narrowest limits." --Thomas Jefferson to Isaac McPherson, 1813. ME 13:327

"The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered as individuals … It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of." Albert Gallatin of the New York Historical Society, October 7, 1789

16 posted on 03/09/2007 8:17:25 AM PST by Dead Corpse (What would a free man do?)
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To: Dead Corpse
The Bill Of Rights is only illustrative. It contains a limited number of examples but the Tenth Amendment makes it clear the people retain their rights regardless of whether or not they are included in the Nine listed in the Constitution.

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus

94 posted on 03/09/2007 8:45:30 AM PST by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives In My Heart Forever)
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