Shutdown Resources for 6/1/2020 - 6/5/2020
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June 1, 2020 - June 5, 2020
June 1, 2020 - June 5, 2020
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The question I have had is: "Are these assignments mandatory?" Technically, no. However, the learning here is, in the bigger picture, required for you to be a functional adult who is aware of his/her own history. Make of that what you will.
Read to the end, please:
The question I have had is: "Are these assignments mandatory?" Technically, no. However, the learning here is, in the bigger picture, required for you to be a functional adult who is aware of his/her own history. Make of that what you will.
Read to the end, please:
Suppose I asked you to list the things that you needed to stay alive? Or, suppose I asked you to list what you feel your freedoms are? Or, maybe I asked you to make a list of your favorite activities?
Now, suppose I then took your list and said, "well, you put food 4th after breathing, homeostasis and water....so....since you put it in fourth place on your list, it's not really all that important."
Would that make sense? No?
Good. Now you understand the Ninth Amendment!
Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
Griswold v. Connecticut
Satire - Life without the 9th Amendment
Let's say some government bureaucrat (but I repeat myself) said that he was going to write a law that mandated that everyone in town go kneel before a statue of him or her every day. When people objected, saying it was unconstitutional, the bureaucrat responded with "Well, where in the Constitution does it say I CAN'T do that"?
Well, at first you might be stymied in your response. However, if you had studied the Tenth Amendment in Civics class, you'd remind said bureaucrat of...
Satire - Life without the 9th Amendment
Let's say some government bureaucrat (but I repeat myself) said that he was going to write a law that mandated that everyone in town go kneel before a statue of him or her every day. When people objected, saying it was unconstitutional, the bureaucrat responded with "Well, where in the Constitution does it say I CAN'T do that"?
Well, at first you might be stymied in your response. However, if you had studied the Tenth Amendment in Civics class, you'd remind said bureaucrat of...
Amendment X
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.
Constitutional Issues that Make a Proper Understanding of 10A Difficult:
GENERAL WELFARE:
We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.
Section. 8.
The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;
Reaction: Write a short reaction that helps me understand your take on WHY the Founders put the Tenth Amendment into the Constitution?
Reaction: Write a short reaction that helps me understand your take on WHY the Founders put the Tenth Amendment into the Constitution?
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