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Originally Posted by danielpalos
... as enumerated in our Ninth Amendment.
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The ninth amendment doesn't enumerate rights. In fact, it's a denial of the concept, explicitly making the point that rights don't need to be enumerated, they're implicit.
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The general welfare is specifically enumerated in our federal Constitution.
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Short of Hamilton's convoluted lawyering, it's not. And if your position is that it is, then please, don't bother defining anything as unconstitutional. As long as it fits the vague concept of "general welfare", and doesn't explicitly violate one of the eight recognized amendments in the Bill of Rights, anything goes.
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Prohibition doesn't qualify as a promotion or provision of the general welfare due to its extra-constitutionality.
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Again, how does it not fit "general welfare" to keep drugs off the streets? How is it "extra-constitutional" (assuming the Hamiltonian view)?
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In my view, the fact that eliminating Fed is considered more of a priority than the drug war is more of a conspiracy than the conspiracy of the Fed, itself.
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Sort of a meta-conspiracy?