gnojek writes:
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So can I claim that I have retained a right to smoke marijuana or sell my ladies on the corner?
Of course not. Other powers granted to the governmental bodies allow them to regulate such activity on your part.
You seem to have this bizarre "all or nothing" attitude regarding the interaction between the various levels of government and the people. The reality of the situation is that it isn't like that. No right is absolute. Your right to free speech, for example, does not guarantee you an audience. The airwaves are regulated by the government in order to allow them to be used by the public. You have a right to use the EM spectrum to broadcast your views, but not by crowding out everybody else. In order to prevent that, the government forms a regulatory function which is in their power as defined by the Constitution.
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Those are my rights retained by me.
No, they're not.
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So how many rights do the people retain without the constitution enumerating them and what are they?
This is a silly question. The system doesn't work that way.
You seem to be of the "laundry list" view of the Constitution and it isn't.
Rrhain
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