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In reply to the discussion: Do you favor gun registration? [View all]X_Digger
(18,585 posts)Our government and courts are based on the principles of the enlightenment philosophy that rights are inherent in the people, not granted by the government.
The right to travel is a well-established right, but it appears nowhere in the bill of rights or the constitution.
The framers of the bill of rights considered not even writing them down, for fear that future generations might argue that our rights are only those explicitly spelled out, regardless of the 9th/10th amendment. (Boy, they nailed that one, eh?)
The right to keep and bear arms would go from being an explicitly protected, enumerated right, to an unenumerated right, implicitly protected by the ninth amendment. And it would remain explicitly protected by various state constitutions.