One Punch Doug Crashin
I AM INVINSIBLE!
"The People" seems to be people as a whole.
FromtheThread
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No inherent right to privacy either. Apparently the Supreme Court completely made that one up on the seat of their pants. It's sorta kinda not really implied by the 3rd, 4th, and 5th Amendments, but it's never actually stated verbatim.
Lulz, there are no explicit requirements for judges. They can be of any age when appointed. So if you have a 5 year old law prodigy on your hands, get ready guys.
Martial Law is never explicitly given as something the President can institute during war. Habeus Corpus can be suspended, but martial law is only allowed during times in which the civil authority is not able to carry on. The Supreme Court ruled in 1866 that Lincoln was wrong in establishing Martial Law during the war, because civil authority could still function. Wow.
Despite what Arkansas, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas think no person may be bared from a state or federal office because of a failure to believe in a God or Supreme Being. The only mention of religion in the Constitution specifically denies a "religious test" being used to bar position in any office or Trust in the United States. That means no "Lulz, no office for you Atheist" laws.
Lulz, there are no explicit requirements for judges. They can be of any age when appointed. So if you have a 5 year old law prodigy on your hands, get ready guys.
Martial Law is never explicitly given as something the President can institute during war. Habeus Corpus can be suspended, but martial law is only allowed during times in which the civil authority is not able to carry on. The Supreme Court ruled in 1866 that Lincoln was wrong in establishing Martial Law during the war, because civil authority could still function. Wow.
Despite what Arkansas, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas think no person may be bared from a state or federal office because of a failure to believe in a God or Supreme Being. The only mention of religion in the Constitution specifically denies a "religious test" being used to bar position in any office or Trust in the United States. That means no "Lulz, no office for you Atheist" laws.
Doesn't change the fact that the right to vote is not guaranteed verbatim by the Constitution. Neither is the right to privacy, though the Supreme Court argued for the existence of that right under the 9th Amendment, saying that the citizens of the United States expected the right of Privacy and the 9th Amendment states that a right may not be denied just because a right is not given in the original framing of the Constitution.
Tiger Chaos Theory
You ain't drawin' shit!
My Bill of Rights is a little rusty but doesn't it say say something about a "right to vote"? I could be wrong, has been a years since I last looked at it.
The Bill of Rights are the first ten Amendments to the Constitution, and the Right to Vote are no where in them. The 9th Amendment does detail that no right should be kept from the citizens because it isn't in the initial framework of the Constitution, but the specific Right to Vote is no where to be seen.
Though it can be argued that the Freedom of Speech clause of the First Amendment spreads to the right to say who you want as the overall leader of our country for sure. Just saying that it's not explicitly outlined in the Constitution.
EDIT: An example of this can be seen in Texas, where anyone deemed mentally incompetent, in prison, or under probation can vote. If voting were a constitutional right, it would take an act of constitutional law to take that right away from someone.
There is no implicit Right to Travel either. Lulz. However, the Supreme Court has argued many times that it is an inherent right of the People that is therefore protected by the Constitution's 9th Amendment. It's also all up in the US Code and the old Articles of Confederation (our short lived, like 10 year government after the Revolution), so it's easy to say that the Founders probably thought that the Right to Travel was universally implied.
That hilarious utterance you hear from white supremacists all the time that they have a right to "a jury to my peers!" and should therefore not have any blacks (who for some reason are lower than them) on their jury is never in the Constitution either. There is a right to a jury for criminal cases, and the option for a jury for any federal civil trial that exceeds 20 dollars, and an implicit requirement in the 7th Amendment that calls for the jury to be impartial. The 6th Amendment requires that the trial be tried in the same state that the crime took place in. However, no "jury of my peers" is guaranteed.
This is important to note, seeing as though back in the 1700s a "jury of my peers" for a monarch would have meant finding 12 other kings to try them. So on and so forth, before you would soon have commoners unable to try barons and vice versa.
That hilarious utterance you hear from white supremacists all the time that they have a right to "a jury to my peers!" and should therefore not have any blacks (who for some reason are lower than them) on their jury is never in the Constitution either. There is a right to a jury for criminal cases, and the option for a jury for any federal civil trial that exceeds 20 dollars, and an implicit requirement in the 7th Amendment that calls for the jury to be impartial. The 6th Amendment requires that the trial be tried in the same state that the crime took place in. However, no "jury of my peers" is guaranteed.
This is important to note, seeing as though back in the 1700s a "jury of my peers" for a monarch would have meant finding 12 other kings to try them. So on and so forth, before you would soon have commoners unable to try barons and vice versa.
One Punch Doug Crashin
I AM INVINSIBLE!
Methinks these should be Cigar Lounge topics. They would have quite the interesting arguments.
They would, but probably not the rights ones. All of the rights that aren't explicitly stated in the Constitution can conceivably be, and quite rightly so, argued for under the 9th Amendment.
I shall go write one up right now. I'm thinking Judicial Review.
I shall go write one up right now. I'm thinking Judicial Review.
One Punch Doug Crashin
I AM INVINSIBLE!
It's self implied.
No it's not. Congress may not keep a newspaper from printing a story, but a newspaper stand may choose not to carry a newspaper because they carried a specific newspaper.
A business may keep its employees from discussing religion, politics, or the latest episode of Saturday Night Life for all they want. Absolute freedom of speech is not guaranteed. It just may not be regulated against by the federal government.
A business may keep its employees from discussing religion, politics, or the latest episode of Saturday Night Life for all they want. Absolute freedom of speech is not guaranteed. It just may not be regulated against by the federal government.
The Big Gunnzbowski
Damas y Caballeros...
I have no idea what's being discussed and I'm too lazy/tired to look back, so I just wanna say that one of you is wrong, one of you is right, and Fromthesouth fears Chuck Norris... still
Tiger Chaos Theory
You ain't drawin' shit!
Where is my news?
Thriller Ant
Beep Bop Boop
Well happy birthday then Razor! I don't know, sometimes I enjoy the chilling out, nothing to do birthdays more than the crazy hundreds of people around party birthdays.
FromTheSouth
You don't want it with me.
I am going to detroy you.
Mighty NorCal
SHALL WE BEGIN?
FTS IS ONLINE???!?!
*shits pants in shock*
*shits pants in shock*
Had to do it. <3Probably. Oh well. I just hope FTS didn't have a heart attack when he realized what I'd done.
Oh, and thanks you fucker.
Turd Ferguson
DA-DA Da Da Da Bah Da Da DADADA
Evan Bourne will now forever be known to Buzz Aldrin as "That Guy".
