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prondeau Wrote: Oct 10, 2012 4:06 PM
The Obamacare HHS mandates are a clear violation of religious freedom spelled out in the First Amendment. Under those circumstance, I am not sure how anyone can argue that if the Constitution said nothing, it would not be even worse. After all, we have abortion which sprung from a right to privacy--neither of which is actually in the Constitution.
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wmou Wrote: Oct 10, 2012 12:37 PM
Our founders worried about that also which is why they wrote the 9th and 10th amendments. Once FDR stacked the courts they started negating those two amendments to the point they have almost no meaning today . Today if congress says something is for our own good, the SC calls it constitutional.
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manzana Wrote: Oct 10, 2012 10:38 AM
Let me give an example. In 1996, Bill Clinton "clarified" Movie ratings SInce that tiem we have been in undated with oprnaographic, or soft porn on both the movie screen and the TV set. After all, now all they have to do is warn you that what they are showing meets a certain standard as set by the government. Before that "movie bill of rights" was in place, Movie and TV moguls were more careful where they stepped, as they had no guidelines under which to be protected if they made a misstep. The Bill of Rights was the first doeument to be so used, and has been abused so ever since.
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