Re: 9th Amendment: a dead letter?

Peter Franks <none@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in
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> Larry wrote:
>> There are lots of non-weapons that you're not allowed to possess
>> (drugs, national security secrets, forged checks, counterfeit
>> driver's licenses, etc.) so I don't understand what you're saying
>> here. 
> 
> In a pure sense, none of what you mentioned should be illegal as none
> of it substantially affects the right(s) of another.
> 
> The role of government is to secure rights, not to abridge or control
> them. 

You very badly misunderstand the "role of government" under our system.  
Government has broadly-defined purposes.  These can be found in the 
preamble to the Constitution and various clauses in Article I, among other

places.  The government is assumed to be untrustworthy when it comes to 
securing individual rights.  Thus the various restrictions placed upon it.