Quote:Sure it does, if it's politically convenient for whichever side wants it done a certain way to say that it does.

 

You're correct that it enumerates some rights. The fact is that it does not create or grant those rights, merely identifies specific ones pertinent to the times that are codified to be beyond the scope of government interference. There are many other unenumerated rights that also fall outside that scope, but the Constitution is designed to address what Government can do, not what it can't. Where we have lost our way is that the current populace views it exactly backwards, that unless it is specifically enumerated then it falls within the perview of government when the opposite is the intent of the Founders.

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