The 9th Amendment to the Constitution for the united States of America is the one that is NEVER talked about in legal or political circles. It's the one [they] don't want you to think about.
It preserves ALL rights that ALREADY existed before the Constitution was created, with the only exception being those rights that were delegated to government by the Constitution.
The 2nd Amendment is about We the People fighting off enemies, foreign or domestic.
But the right to self-defense, gun ownership in general, and all the rest are in the 9th Amendment.
Remember: All of the Bill of Rights (first 10 amendments) are to LIMIT THE POWERS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, and NOT to "create" any new rights of the people.
Most people do not know there even is a preamble to the Bill of Rights, much less have ever read it. Here is the Preamble:
The conventions of a number of the States having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added.
Catch that? RESTRICTIVE.
The Bill of Rights are ALL restrictive, as to what the federal government is NOT permitted to do.
The 1st: Congress shall make NO law ...
The 2nd: ... shall NOT be infringed.
The 3rd: NO quartering of soldiers ...
The 4th: ... shall NOT be violated ... (btw: "unreasonable" search or seizure means without a judge's signed warrant)
The 5th: NO person shall be held/compelled/etc. ...
The 6th: The government SHALL provide several protections to anyone accused of a crime.
The 7th: Anyone involved in a civil case SHALL have certain rights preserved.
The 8th: Excessive bail shall NOT ...
The 9th Amendment says that ALL rights of the People, that ALREADY existed BEFORE the government was created, were STILL IN EFFECT AFTER that government was created. Here is the 9th Amendment:
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Get it? RETAINED.
Originally, Madison wrote 17 amendements, mostly modeled after George Mason's work on the Virginia Declaration of Rights. He scaled that down to 12. He did not omit anything, but merely rearranged them so that some of them were consolidated from two or three into one. The 5th, for example, has several restrictions of the federal government included within one amendment, rather than having them each in their own separate amendments.
The 12 amendments were presented to the States, and 10 were approved. The other 2 had to do with the number of representatives in the House, based on population, and congressional salary increases not taking effect until after the next legislative session. Those 2 did not pass. However, the one on salaries was given new life more than 200 years later, and was ultimately ratified in 1992, to become the 27th Amendment.
The 9th Amendment is KEY. It preserved ALL rights that humans had before the government was created.
https://constitution.org/1-Constitution/billofr_.htm
As the Declaration of Independence stated (which was written just 13 years earlier), certain truths are SELF-EVIDENT. Namely, that we have rights that existed BEFORE the government existed, and for which the government shall never be permitted to violate (inalienable/unalienable). And ...
... to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Government does not grant fundamental rights. Those rights existed before the government existed, and those rights were used to CREATE the government in the first place.
Once created, government CAN create "civil rights," which are rights that are really privileges, and can be regulated by their creator (the government). But the government cannot create civil rights that supercede natural/God-given rights, because those rights are inalienable/unalienable (untouchable).
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Billions of people throughout history have been led by the nose by an evil Cabal down a path of abject slavery. They believe what they have been taught, through fraud, for millennia. I have a feeling, based on who you are placing faith in, that you haven’t gotten far along the path of appreciating the true history of this planet. The evidence suggests we are not the first “advanced” civilization. A year ago I would have thought that was completely crazy. Then I actually started digging into the evidence. The Great Reset is not the first Reset. There have been many others, and in each case history was rewritten, and the rhetoric created in the works further obfuscated Reality.
The evidence suggests about 13,000 years ago there was a comet that hit the arctic and caused a Flood (The Flood). It almost completely wiped out the advanced civilization that existed at that time. Making that case is possible, but would take quite a while. I can point you in the right direction if you are interested, but it is well worth attempting to comprehend the scope of the rewriting of history, so you can appreciate what is going on today. That is not the only lie of history, it’s not even scratching the surface. The evidence suggests virtually everything we believe about history is a lie to one extent or another. The “official narrative” of “society started 10,000 years ago in the fertile crescent” is provably intentional fraud. The evidence for that statement is overwhelming.
I’ve tried to explain to you that your belief of this definition was implanted by a school system that purposefully intended to make you believe something that isn’t true. If you want to say “the physical part of Reality” you need to use a different word, because “Universe” means everything, by definition. It is described in the way you have defined it so that people will think of “spiritual” and “physical” as separate things. That is a fraud (intentional lie to mislead comprehension of That Which Is).
This “separateness” of God is another fraud. There can be no separation from God, God is That Which Is. To make this case would take a very long time, but again, it can be done, and I can lead you in the right direction if you wish. There is so very much context that needs to be understood however. There is so much fraud in our education. The Bible for example (final edit, not the original books, though some of those too), was written by the same people that wrote the Quran, and the Bhagavad Gita, etc., etc.. They are all designed to guide us in the wrong direction, by lies of context. What exactly the Right direction is I can’t say for sure of course, but all signs point to an appreciation of “oneness”, i.e. God as All, i.e. The Universe, and God, and That Which Is, and Reality, are all identical meanings, and We, and all other things, are fundamentally Part of All AKA God. The idea of a separate "God" is intentional fuckery.
If you can at least grant that these things might be true, we can continue meaningfully. At least grant that your definitions might be fraudulent (intentionally misleading). You really need to delve into history more I think, because you are missing so much of the fraud.
I'm not sure why it is important for you to define these particular terms (God, Universe, etc.). Their equality is central to my attempt to help you understand the scope of things, but it is not essential to the main arguments themselves. If you can just allow that I am equating them for a reason, and try to understand that reason, it will make things go a lot smoother. Unless of course you wish to have the separate debate about the topics themselves, in which case that's fine, but is very much a tangent to the main topic of this conversation.
Capitalism and Communism, or any “ism” have nothing to do with anarchy. I mean, they can have something to do with them, just like orange juice can have something to do with a peanut butter sandwich, but they have no meaningful relationship unless you purposefully have them both for lunch. They are Economic Design Patterns. We currently live in a Totalitarian Capitalism (weakly disguised as a “free market” which is a total fraud and always has been.) Capitalism is an economic design pattern to “use capital to gain more capital.” In a truly Free Market, any ism can be applied. It is when we force a society to adhere to any one ism that we create the problems. If someone wants to run a business where all workers share equally in both the means of production and the profits (an application of the Communism Design Pattern), then the market will decide whether or not they will succeed. But (presumably) all of those “workers” are there by choice in a Free Market. It is only when any ism is forced that fuckery ensues.
Economic Design Patterns have nothing intrinsically to do with “ruler” or “no ruler.”
The Constitution is an Article of Incorporation that, through the Sovereign Authority of the signers creates a Trust. It is not the Trust itself; that is the corporate entity defined by the Article. This Article of Incorporation is a Contract, as are all Articles of Incorporation, between the Signers and the Authority that grants Legal Personhood (the definition of a Corporation). In the case of the Constitution, the Signers and the Authority were the same people, which is rare, but there are several other examples. The Constitutional Contract defines a Social Order AKA a specific Order to Society AKA a Social Contract.