{"id":2327,"date":"2010-07-20T02:03:47","date_gmt":"2010-07-20T09:03:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=2327"},"modified":"2010-07-20T02:03:47","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T09:03:47","slug":"constitutional-amendments-articles-ix-and-x","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/07\/20\/constitutional-amendments-articles-ix-and-x\/","title":{"rendered":"Constitutional Amendments: Articles IX and X"},"content":{"rendered":"

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We have been covering the US Constitution line by line.  When Republicans wave their paper props and parrot their vile machinations, we will be prepared to expose the lies.  We have finished the main body of the Constitution.  Now we continue with the Amendments.  You can find the last article on the main body of the Constitution<\/font> here<\/a>. It has links to all the others.  The text comes from<\/font> The US Constitution<\/a>.  Previous articles in the Amendment series:<\/font><\/p>\n

Article I<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n
Articles II and III<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n
Article IV<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n
Article V<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n
Article VI<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n
Article VII<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n
Article VIII<\/font><\/a><\/h6>\n

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Article [IX]<\/h3>\n
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The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

How often do you hear the Republicans parrot, \u201cThe right to ________ is not in the Constitution, so you don\u2019t have it.\u201d?  Recently I\u2019ve heard it applied to privacy, integration, women\u2019s reproductive rights, appeals, and more.  The Ninth Amendment  these Republicans lie. We have several rights that the Constitution does not enumerate.  One is the right to the pursuit of happiness from the Declaration of Independence, although in my younger days, I was more inclined to interpret it as the happiness of pursuit.<\/font><\/p>\n

Article [X]<\/h3>\n
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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.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The Tenth Amendment draws a line between Federal and State powers.  It becomes controversial over federal funding.  For example, the federal government may not dictate speed limits on Interstate highways.  However they can offer funding for those highways, contingent on states accepting 55 MPH.  NCLB was interesting, because the Republicans mandated the program under the threat of withdrawing funding states were already receiving.  Then they cut the funding anyway.  GOP secessionists claim that the Tenth gives them the right to secede.  If it does, the first Republican put that notion to rest.<\/font><\/p>\n

I shall try to put up a new article in this series almost every day.  It will take some time to cover it all, but when we\u2019re done, we shall be immune to the lies with which Republicans seek to undermine our freedoms.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We have been covering the US Constitution line by line.  When Republicans wave their paper props and parrot their vile machinations, we will be prepared to expose the lies.  We have finished the main body of the Constitution.  Now we continue with the Amendments.  You can find the last article on the main body of […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-editorial","category-politics","category-19-id","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}