--- "Thomas L. Knapp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Ridiculous as sodomy laws may be, there clearly is > no right to privacy nor sodomy found anywhere in the > Constitution.
The 9th Amendment recognizes rights even if not stated explicitly. These are both common-law and natural rights that exits apart from the constitution and are recognized and protected by it. > There are, > however, states' rights -- rights plainly affirmed > in the Ninth and Tenth amendments. Not the 9th, which recognizes rights "retained by the people." States are not mentioned. > Under those amendments, the State > of Texas has the right to decide for itself how to regulate social matters like sex, > using its own local standards." What rights are retained by the people? Fred Foldvary
