Sorry to stray from shaping, but Swaylocks is the only intelligent forum I’ve ever come across on the internet, and I needed real help with a question (I teach fifth grade).
Can someone explain the Ninth Amendment to the Contsitution to me? It states: The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
I read that as: You cannot take these rights away from people. But it is the only confusing amendment, in my opinion. By the way, the Constitution is a great read. I recommend it.
"The language and history of the Ninth Amendment reveal that
the Framers of the Constitution believed that there are additional
fundamental rights, protected from governmental infringement, which
exist alongside those fundamental rights specifically mentioned in the
first eight constitutional amendments. . . . To hold that a right so
basic and fundamental and so deep-rooted in our society as the right of
privacy in marriage may be infringed because that right is not
guaranteed in so many words by the first eight amendments to the
Constitution is to ignore the Ninth"
The Constitution is not a perfect document, but the preamble of says it all for me.
The framers, wanted more than anything else, balance of power…an individual or group would have no more power than other entities within its framework.
One way to look at it is like how schools do their discipline rules.
there usually is a final note that says something along the lines of “Anything else that the school administration finds as a violation”
Basically the same thing, saying that word for word the Constitution isnt solely limited to what it says. There were some very intelligent men who wrote that, who realized that the world wasnt going to stay the same forever.
I’m sure it gets much more detailed then that, but I’ll leave that to the more intelligent people here
Are you stating that Ashcroft could stop our right to make boards? But don’t we have the right to life, limb and the pursuit of massive debt?.. or something like that… see it all relates to surfing…
Fairmont - I teach a little bit of history to special ed students in highschool. My take on the 9th amendment, taken as part of the first 10 amendments, aka “the bill of rights,” is - just because other rights are not spelled out here, in the contitution, and the bill of rights, doesn’t mean they are thus “deny(d) or disparage(d)” i.e, the people still retain the “common law” types of rights even though we haven’t spelled them out here. It might be like they were saying, look we are not going to spell out a contingency plan to cover every single right we would all agree that we have. That’s my take anyway. Good luck, keep up the good work - bless you. Taylor E. Olson
Mr Ashcroft told me he was “down” with surfers, surfing and anything board building related. Said something about it representing the very “heart and soul of the American spirit.” Right after we hung up though strange things started happening with my computer… every time I started it up this funny looking logo appeared.
My Goodness… surfing certainly has changed in my lifetime. Now the AG of the US is “down” with surfing!!! I remember when the heart and soul of surfing was much more influenced by the spririt of Columbia.
