Originally Posted By: ed good
and as to the notion that all rights are included in the constitution...that comes from the english concept of rights, where rights are granted to the people by the british parliament...the british people have no unalienable rights. whereas, we the people of the united states, retain all of our unalienable rights not delegated to the federal government nor denied to us by our state or local governments...the 10th amendment is very clear about that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenth_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution


I might suggest you have that backwards Ed. It is the Napoleonic Code and the American Bill of Rights that started the idea that rights could be "given" by a government. The US also happened to note that some rights were intrinsic to just being a person.

The British system is more based on the idea that we have all the rights in the world to do whatever we want. But we allow the government, over time and with experience (English common law) to place some restrictions on us (take certain rights away).

The world cries out for such: he is needed & needed badly- the man who can carry a message to Garcia