Amendments nine and ten speak to States and Individual Rights.

Unlike Liberals who cherry pick or restate to their own purpose what someone or something says, this Conservative will post verbatim those Constitutional Articles referenced below.

Amendment I: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.

Amendment II: A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

Amendment III: No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner prescribed by law.

Amendment IV: The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, an no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Amendment V: No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on the presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising from the land or naval forces, or int the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Amendment VI: In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have Assistance of Counsel for his defense.

Amendment VII: In suits of common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any Court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

Amendment VIII: Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

Amendment IX: The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

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.

Notice the nouns and pronouns in red in the above Amendments.

With regards to the word "people" in the First Amendment, outlining our most important rights, we have understood for the many generations, since the Constitution was crafted, that it is representing each and every individual person. If you doubt this amendment guarantees an individual his or her rights, please give your reason.

The word "people", previously representing those who receive individual rights in the First Amendment, just so happens to turn up in the next amendment in importance as was listed by our Founders. If you doubt this amendment guarantees an individual his or her rights, please give your reasoning for the founders to insert a State or Federal right within a body of individual rights and still call it "a right of the people" that "shall not be infringed."

The word "owner" appears in the Third Amendment as being the object of this amendment's protection. Does anyone doubt that this represents an individual right? If you doubt this amendment guarantees an individual rights, please give your reason.

The word "person" is again the recipient of individual rights in the Fifth Amendment. If you doubt this amendment guarantees an individual rights, please give your reason.

The word "accused" and referenced back to by the pronoun "him" are used by the Sixth Amendment to guarantee individual rights. If you doubt this amendment guarantees an individual rights, please give your reason.

The Seventh Amendment and the Eighth Amendment are obvious extensions of the Sixth Amendment and guarantee an individual rights. If you doubt these amendments guarantee an individual his or her rights, please give your reason.

The Ninth Amendment lets it be known that the enumeration of the first Eight Amendments "shall not be construed to deny or disparage others [rights] retained by the people."

Obviously the Ninth Amendment is additionally confirming that the rights listed before the Ninth Amendment were Rights of We The People, Individual Rights.

The Tenth Amendment speaks to Rights and Powers not given to the United States, or rights and Powers not prohibited to the States, belong to the States or the "people."

Amendments Nine and Ten guarantee that the first Eight Amendments, and those Rights enumerated within, belong to the Individual.

It does not make sense that only one of the First Eight Amendments, most prominently the Second Amendment, would be an enumeration of a singular States' Right.

We The People must be ever vigilant that the Supreme Court, Congress or the President never remove any one or part of those Individual Rights guaranteed by We The People in our great Constitution.

If such travesty were to stand then the entire Constitution would be at risk for raiding by a few well chosen black robed justices or politicians who render personal opinions or actions rather than opinions or actions based on and allowed by The Constitution. All Individual Rights would be subject to their whims.

Additionally what sense would it make to call for the militia, regular citizens, and when they arrived they had no arms to bear. Why would our founders have noted "the right of the people to keep and bear arms" as that which, "shall not be infringed" if they intended for the States to own the arms that the militia would use?

That makes no sense, just as it would have made no sense to insert a "States' Right" second in a body of eight individual rights.

Even President Barack Hussein Obama agrees that the Second Amendment is an Individual Right, however he also believes that our Constitution is “fundamentally flawed,” as with many Liberals, he believes it to be an Inconvenient Truth.

This Proud American considers the Bills of Rights as "POSITIVE" Rights" and cannot accept the premise that they are "NEGATIVE Rights" as was asserted by our current President.

 

Democrat Rule Number One
The Constitution Is An Inconvenient Truth!

 

We America

Proud American ~ Watchman