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Diotrephes · 70-79, M
@TexChik Maybe you should read the damn thing again. The people have all of the rights unless they give them up to the government (the control freaks they love to elect). The idiot who wrote the constitution was a dummy but he did include that thought =
10th Amendment = "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."
Some States realized that a dummy had screwed it up in the federal constitution so they made it clear in their State constitutions =
1. "Text of Section 29:
Enumeration of Rights of People Not Exclusive of Other Rights - Protection Against Encroachment
This enumeration of rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people; and to guard against any encroachments on the rights herein retained, or any transgression of any of the higher powers herein delegated, we declare that everything in this article is excepted out of the general powers of the government; and shall forever remain inviolate; and that all laws contrary thereto, or to the other provisions herein contained, shall be void."
https://ballotpedia.org/Article_2,_Arkansas_Constitution
2. "Text of Section 20:
Powers Retained by People
This enumeration of rights shall not be construed to impair or deny others retained by the people; and all powers not herein delegated remain with the people."
https://ballotpedia.org/Bill_of_Rights,_Kansas_Constitution
3. "Text of Article IV:
The people of this commonwealth have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves, as a free, sovereign, and independent state; and do, and forever hereafter shall, exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not, or may not hereafter, be by them expressly delegated to the United States of America in Congress assembled."
https://ballotpedia.org/Part_the_First,_Massachusetts_Constitution
4. "Text of Section 33:
Enumeration of Rights Not Exclusive
This enumeration of rights, and privileges shall not be construed to impair or deny others retained by the people."
https://ballotpedia.org/Article_I,_Oregon_Constitution
10th Amendment = "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."
Some States realized that a dummy had screwed it up in the federal constitution so they made it clear in their State constitutions =
1. "Text of Section 29:
Enumeration of Rights of People Not Exclusive of Other Rights - Protection Against Encroachment
This enumeration of rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people; and to guard against any encroachments on the rights herein retained, or any transgression of any of the higher powers herein delegated, we declare that everything in this article is excepted out of the general powers of the government; and shall forever remain inviolate; and that all laws contrary thereto, or to the other provisions herein contained, shall be void."
https://ballotpedia.org/Article_2,_Arkansas_Constitution
2. "Text of Section 20:
Powers Retained by People
This enumeration of rights shall not be construed to impair or deny others retained by the people; and all powers not herein delegated remain with the people."
https://ballotpedia.org/Bill_of_Rights,_Kansas_Constitution
3. "Text of Article IV:
The people of this commonwealth have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves, as a free, sovereign, and independent state; and do, and forever hereafter shall, exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not, or may not hereafter, be by them expressly delegated to the United States of America in Congress assembled."
https://ballotpedia.org/Part_the_First,_Massachusetts_Constitution
4. "Text of Section 33:
Enumeration of Rights Not Exclusive
This enumeration of rights, and privileges shall not be construed to impair or deny others retained by the people."
https://ballotpedia.org/Article_I,_Oregon_Constitution