writes:

I must have missed that "right" in any of the Constituional amendments.

The authors of the Consitution tended to think along the lines of
everything being permissible, except that which was prohibited ... and
not the other way around. So it is not necessary to explicitly list
rights in the Constitution, it is only necessary to explicitly list
prohibitions. The only reason rights are listed is to counter
widespread abuses--by people who think it's okay to outlaw anything
that isn't guaranteed by the Constitution.

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