NYcarbineer
Diamond Member
You asked for an explanation of the phrase. I gave you one. On the house. You don't even have to send the promised money.
You didn't read what I asked for. Read it again.
You wrote this:
Let Founding Father Alexander Hamilton explain it to you:
Here, in strictness, the people surrender nothing, and as they retain every thing, they have no need of particular reservations."
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I will literally pay someone $20, via Paypal, to explain to me, to my satisfaction (and I'm a fair man) what the fuck the above jibberish means,
and more importantly, how it proves beyond a reasonable doubt that I got something wrong.
The Founders would have easily said that the people of any state or community could establish whatever norms they wished to create the kind of society they wished to have. For instance, if a marriage is not consummated it can be annulled, but also certain rules regarding annulment or divorce can apply. It can be illegal to commit adultery or to have sex with an underaged person or to commit bigamy, etc. etc. etc. And such laws do not have to be uniform from state to state. So there is no constitutional right to have sex per se but rather there is the right to order a society any way you want it to be.
More on this in my thread "A government of the people, by the people, for the people."
I did edit my previous post and requested that you send the $20 to USMB in my name.
There is as much constitutional right for adults to have consensual sex as there is a constitutional right to bear arms.