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Originally Posted by guy44
The ACLU's mission is not to abstractly defend the Bill of Rights. The ACLU takes a position on civil liberties issues and then defends them, whether or not those issues are outlined in the Bill of Rights.
Tarl, you are acting awfully smug for someone who apparantly believes that the American Civil Liberties Union should spend its time on a non-civil liberties-focused amendment like the Tenth.
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I never said there was anything abstract about it. The
Anti-Christian Lawyers Union studiously avoids the second, ninth, and tenth amendments.
I'd also like further clarification in regard to why you feel that the following has little to do with civil liberties:
"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."
By the way, this does not mean rights are "granted" to the people. Research proves that, according to the framers of the Constitution, the people have always had rights; this just ensures that the people
retain those rights.
It's been a few years, but a group of us had quite a running discussion with a local ACLU head a few years back. I'm sure they're around here somewhere.
(Sound of rummaging through desk.) Aaah.... here they are.
I'm just not sure I want to go through typing anything else. History would indicate that everyone's mind is made up by now.