Reply #4: Except that you are forgetting the 9th and 10th Amendments

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which state that all unenumerated powers are reserved to the States and the People respectively and that the enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Therefore, if the Constitution were properly obeyed, the powers of the Federal government would be as Madison wrote in Federalist #45, "few and defined". If it's not written in the powers clause of Article I Section 8 or Article II Section 2, then it's not a power the gov't should possess according to the Constitution.

These two Amendments are highly important in blocking the Bush Administration and we liberals ought to make better use of them.

When a conservative asks you where the right to privacy is in the Constitution point them to the 9th Amendment.

Doug De Clue
Orlando, FL