Constitutional Law: High Points
Here’s some short points to remember as the confirmation process for Judge Roberts goes on.
You have a great many rights that are not named in the Constitution.
One of them is a right to privacy. The government has no business in your personal life.
That is NOT a right to an abortion. It is merely the conclusion that the federal government has no business in your doctor’s examining room.
The Constitution restricts the federal government. States and localities may do things that the federal government is prevented from doing.
Not everything is a federal issue.
Your rights, explicit or not, have limits. Most of those limits are at the point where they affect another person.
The Senate of the United States is not the House of Lords. Though they seem to believe such. They are your employees, paid by your tax dollars.
Americans are far more free than we have been led to believe. That misconception serves the purposes of those who seek to limit our freedoms.
People commit crimes by their own choice. People make mistakes by their own choice. People are bigoted by their own choice. Your path through life is defined by the choices that you make.
The word “government” does not appear anywhere in the preceding paragraph.
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