Question

what right are we strugling to keep from the bill of rights?

Answer 1

A right from the bill of rights... I say it is own right to privacy to marry who you want or say the privacy to get an abortion

Answer 2

Do that answer your question?

Answer 3

yeah thank ya :)

Answer 4

That most endangered is probably the right to keep and bear arms, from the Second Amendment. Quite a lot of people would like guns to be heavily regulated or banned, which, whether you like it or not, flatly contradicts the Constitution.

There is no right to privacy, abortion, or marriage of any type in the US Constitution, although something similar to an explicit right has been found in "penumbras" and "emanations" of the Bill of Rights by various Supreme Court rulings, much in the way the Supreme Court in Dred Scott v. Sanford found that an owner has a "right" to slave. If you take the position that the Constitution says only what the Supreme Court says it says, then it says anything at all -- or, really, nothing at all.

Answer 5

Carl I agree with you about the 2nd, but 9th admendment says that we have other right not list in the bill of rights, so we do in a way have the right of privacy, and there have been attempt to pass an admendment that defines marriage

Answer 6

Sure, you have all kinds of rights not in the Constitution. These are rooted in English common law, for example the right to inherit, the right to make contracts, the right to have children and rear them as you see fit, and no doubt some right to privacy. And without doubt the Ninth Amendment is meant to take notice of that fact.

But all these rights are not in the Bill of Rights, which was the original question. So you may well be fighting to save your right to privacy, but that isn't a right in the Bill of Rights, so it doesn't fit the original question.

I don't agree you have a right to abortion, either in the Constitution (I think Roe v. Wade is wrong), or in English common law. Abortion has always been heavily regulated, and quite often banned outright, for the obvious reason that you are killing a human being, and generally the right of one person to kill another is very heavily regulated and restricted. (Consider your right to defend yourself with deadly force, for example.) If society is going to claim the right to regulate and restrict when you can kill someone who invades your home and tries to rape you, and regulate when you can spank your child, then I see no reason why society should not similarly have the right to regulate and restrict when you may kill your (or somebody else's) unborn child.

I don't know of any Federal attempt to pass a definition of marriage amendment to the Constitution. However, 30 states currently have definitions of marriage amendments to their state constitutions that effectively prohibit marriage between same-sex couples. That's because generally marriage is considered a "general police power" issue, and therefore properly reserved to the states. Remember the US is a Federal system, and the central government has specific and restricted powers and areas of responsibility. It is not supposed to get into most of the law that affects everyday life -- such as marriage, contracts, debts, ordinary crime, et cetera. That's all left to the states.

Answer 7

It states all the rights given to the people without the bill of rights the government can chalk all over us

Answer 8

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