Behold the Ninth Amendment

Take this, constitutional "patriots." Read the 9th Amendment to our Constitution. The founders were smarter than we think, for they knew they had not thought of everything and wisely included this provision bestowing rights even they had not imagined. Health care? Reproductive rights? It's all there if we so choose:

"The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."

-- Bill of Rights, Number Nine

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Comments

[theobannion]

06:23 PM on 10/15/2010

Cool, Craig, but you'd have to take apart capitalism first because -
1) food is a privilege: no money, no eaty
2) shelter is a privilege: no money, no roofy
3) medical care is a privilege: no money, no ibuprofin. Forget doctors, who the hell can afford THEM?
For the why, see my post: http://seamusobannion.blogspot.com/2010/10/why-change-from-within-is-impossible.html

[Anym]

05:28 AM on 10/15/2010

brilliant.

[Javalation]

05:28 PM on 10/14/2010

And where in the Constitution are the extraordinary rights of corporations spelled out? Where are they even mentioned? They aren't, yet Republicans have been expanding their rights since shortly after the civil war. The Roberts court, at least the Republicans majority, has legislated from the bench that they can avail their vast financial resources to sway votes, as if this is free speech. No where in the Constitution is this connection made, or even suggested. It is a total fabrications designed to subvert democracy.

[thebigbike]

06:02 PM on 10/14/2010

Yup, when ( before the "Citizens United" case) did corporations become "people" bunch a freakin court activists and constitution twisters: roberts scalia alito thomas and sometimes kennedy

[SusanL224]

08:31 PM on 10/14/2010

Well, doesn't the Preamble to the Constitution read "We the Corporation"? Or is that a recent evision that nobody ran by "We the People"?

[tacevad]

05:06 PM on 10/14/2010

number 9, number 9,number 9.... Is John Lennon speaking to us?

[dick freebird]

05:00 PM on 10/14/2010

While this might be the most noble Amendment, it is also the least
enforceable. And arguably the most broadly ignored.