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January 24, 2011

Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 18

Constitutional Maunderings
Hatched by Dafydd

We come to the end of the Bill of Rights. There would be two more amendments in the next few years... and then a gap of sixty-one years, the longest in our history, before the next batch, the Civil Rights amendments.

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The Amendments -- last of the Bill of Rights, Amendments 9 and 10.

Amendment 9 - Construction of Constitution. Ratified 12/15/1791.

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Amendment 10 - Powers of the States and People. Ratified 12/15/1791. Note

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.

An interesting one-two punch at the end of the BoR: First, assurance to the anti-Federalists that this list of rights was not exhaustive (not by a long shot!); second, the failed attempt to prevent the national government from metastasizing into a Leviathon that encircles the world, swallowing its own tail.

All verses in the Lizardian Constitutional Collection:

  1. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 1 (Preamble)

  2. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 2 (Congress; House, part I)

  3. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 3 (House, part II)

  4. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 4 (Senate, part I)

  5. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 5 (Senate, part II)

  6. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 6 (General congressional admin stuff)

  7. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 7 (Legislative process and enumerated powers)

  8. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 8 (Limitations)

  9. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 9 (The prez -- who does he think he is?)

  10. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 10 (What would a president do?)

  11. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 11 (Judiciary)

  12. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 12 (States, part I)

  13. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 13 (States, part 2)

  14. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 14 (Amendment; supreme law of the land)

  15. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 15 (Ratification rules and signers)

  16. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 16 (Amendments: Bill of Rights, Amendments 1-4)

  17. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 17 (Bill of Rights -- Courtroom Amendments 5-8)

  18. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 18 (Bill of Last Rights 9 and 10)

  19. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 19 (Amendments: Suing other states, president vs. vice president)

  20. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 20 (Amendments: Abolition of slavery)

  21. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 21 (Amendments: States prohibited from infringing rights)

  22. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 22 (Amendments: Racial voting rights)

  23. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 23 (Amendments: Wilsonian-Progressivism I)

  24. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 24 (Amendments: Wilsonian-Progressivism II)

  25. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 25 (Amendments: Rooseveltian amendments)

  26. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 26 (Amendments: Camelot amendments)

  27. Let's Read the Constitution Day! - verse 27 (Amendments: Panacea amendments)

Hatched by Dafydd on this day, January 24, 2011, at the time of 12:00 AM

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