Best retort to "it's not in the constitution!"

[Narkos]

What say you?

[rockymountaindem]

1. Neither is the US Air Force n/t

[Narkos]

2. Nice!!!

[John1956PA]

6. Deleted by author because item was posted in wrong spot.

[Duer 157099]

3. "Neither are the ten commandments"

:shrug:

I don't know what the question really means, though.

[underpants]

4. 9th and 10th Amendments

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

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.

http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment10/

We can do what we want. These two amendments make the Constitution a living document that can, and has, been changed by the people many times

[laughingliberal]

5. Yes, the 9th amendment is my usual response

Of course, that's if what they are saying really isn't in the Constitution. I have had several tell me that, originally, the Constitution did not allow for paying our Congressional Reps or Senators. It's always satisfying to cite Article I, section 6 and show them it does, indeed, deal with compensation for our lawmakers. I have no idea where this stupid idea started but there do seem to be quite a few of them who believe it.

[Obamanaut]

7. Here's a whole list of things not in the constitution

http://www.usconstitution.net/constnot.html

[Narkos]

9. Exactly what I was looking for thanks n/t

[underpants]

10. Great list- GOD

the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God

is in the Declaration but it not so oddly mentioned-they were deist weary of the abuses of THE CHURCH during history

http://www.ushistory.org/Declaration/document/

[John1956PA]

8. Privileged communication between (a) lawyer and client;

(b) physician and patient; (c) priest and penitent.

[Gman2]

11. Wiping your ass isnt in the con either, and you still do it every day.

[Dr Morbius]

12. Irrelevant.

Um, that's my best response to such a claim. Rights DO NOT COME FROM the Constitution.

[JustinL]

13. if this is about the health care bill, it's in the Commerce Clause

Article I, Section 8 of the Constitution gives Congress the power to "regulate Commerce...among the several states" and to "make all laws which be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution" that power.

In 1944, the Supreme Court held that Congress has the power to regulate the insurance industry:

Perhaps no modern commercial enterprise directly affects so many persons in all walks of life as does the insurance business. Insurance touches the home, the family, and the occupation or the business of almost every person in the United States. This business is not separated into 48 distinct territorial compartments which function in isolation from each other. Interrelationship, interdependence, and integration of activities in all the states in which they operate are practical aspects of the insurance companies' methods of doing business. A large share of the insurance business is concentrated in a comparatively few companies located, for the most part, in the financial centers of the East. Premiums collected from policyholders in every part of the United States flow into these companies for investment. As policies become payable, checks and drafts flow back to the many states where the policyholders reside. The result is a continuous and indivisible stream of intercourse among the states composed of collections of premiums, payments of policy obligations, and the countless documents and communications which are essential to the negotiation and execution of policy contracts. Individual policyholders living in many different states who own policies in a single company have their separate interests blended in one assembled fund of assets upon which all are equally dependent for payment of their policies. The decisions which that company makes at its home office-the risks it insures, the premiums it charges, the investments it makes, the losses it pays-concern not just the people of the state where the home office happens to be located. They concern people living far beyond the boundaries of that state.

United States v. South-Eastern Underwriters Association et al., 322 U.S. 533

In addition, insurance spending pays for medical equipment, supplies, and drugs that travel in interstate commerce. In Katzenbach v. McClung, 379 U.S. 294 (1964), the Supreme Court held that Congress could forbid racial discrimination at a restaurant even if it was patronized solely by local customers, because it served food that was purchased from out of state.

[Bitwit1234]

14. A come back...Well now,,,,, how do YOU know.

[madamesilverspurs]

15. A 9-12er informed me that we need to start over,

using the 'pure' constitution before it was 'corrupted' by any of those pesky amendments. He - and his wife - were adamant that we'd be better off. When I asked if she really wouldn't object to having no rights, including the right to vote, she just rolled her eyes at me; her husband then insisted that I was twisting his meaning and taking his words out of context. As I left he shouted that I didn't know what I was talking about. Then he and his wife turned their attention to my friend and her husband, both of them attorneys. chew chew chew chew chew spit grin . . .


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[Rectangle]

16. The term "Corporation" or anything pertaining to organized

busniess (to my knowledge), is not mentioned either!
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