9th And 10th Amendments

September 22, 2024 at 4:07 p.m.


Editor, Times-Union:
As America approaches another November presidential election, we should do more to protect the basic freedoms that we celebrate by furthering strengthening the constitutional guarantees in the Bill of Rights and other amendments for such freedoms. One place to start would be further expanding on the 9th and 10th amendments to the Constitution.
9th Amendment - Rights Retained by the People
The enumeration in the Constitution and its amendments, of certain natural and constitutional rights beyond repeal or abridgement by the United States or any State or foreign power through referendum, amendment, convention, or otherwise, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people now and in perpetuity.
10th Amendment - Powers Reserved to the States & The People
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution or in subsequent amendments, nor prohibited by it and such amendments to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people now and in perpetuity including the right of the States and the people to alter or abolish the bonds of Union in preservation of life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness and a republican form of government against the encroachment to the servitude under monarchy or domestic dictatorship by the few or the many, the maelstrom of anarchy.
Alexander Houze
Leesburg

Editor, Times-Union:
As America approaches another November presidential election, we should do more to protect the basic freedoms that we celebrate by furthering strengthening the constitutional guarantees in the Bill of Rights and other amendments for such freedoms. One place to start would be further expanding on the 9th and 10th amendments to the Constitution.
9th Amendment - Rights Retained by the People
The enumeration in the Constitution and its amendments, of certain natural and constitutional rights beyond repeal or abridgement by the United States or any State or foreign power through referendum, amendment, convention, or otherwise, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people now and in perpetuity.
10th Amendment - Powers Reserved to the States & The People
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution or in subsequent amendments, nor prohibited by it and such amendments to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people now and in perpetuity including the right of the States and the people to alter or abolish the bonds of Union in preservation of life, liberty, property and the pursuit of happiness and a republican form of government against the encroachment to the servitude under monarchy or domestic dictatorship by the few or the many, the maelstrom of anarchy.
Alexander Houze
Leesburg

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