Potties and transgenders...

[takncarabizniz]

Just as I said earlier today...the Donald wants this in the hands of the states, not at a federal level. 

http://mynorthwest.com/554405/rantz-transgender-rights-activists-should-side-with-trump-bathroom-roll-back/

[captain_kook]

How may other rights should be tossed back to the States?

Heck - let's just scrap the Bill of Rights and let politicians and the media
tell us which ones we still have - state by state.

Where's the limit?
 
Any minority against which a large number of citizens can be organized is vulnerable.

Liberty and human rights are over-rated anyway - right?

[duke_john]

Any minority against which a large number of citizens can be organized is vulnerable.

I am sure you had Conservatives speaking without violent riots against them in mind when you wrote that.

[captain_kook]

I don't like violent protests - they make it easier for the police to stop protests
and give politicians an excuse to ignore the wishes of the people - on the left or the right.


Any minority against which a large number of citizens can be organized is vulnerable to authoritarian impulses.

[sweetwater5s9]

Passed by Congress September 25, 1789. Ratified December 15, 1791.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

The Tenth Amendment’s simple language—“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people”—emphasizes that the inclusion of a bill of rights does not change the fundamental character of the national government. It remains a government of limited and enumerated powers, so that the first question involving an exercise of federal power is not whether it violates someone’s rights, but whether it exceeds the national government’s enumerated powers.

The only question posed by the Tenth Amendment is whether a claimed federal power was actually delegated to the national government by the Constitution, and that question is answered by studying the enumerated powers, not by studying the Tenth Amendment.

The Tenth Amendment simply makes clear that institutions of the federal government exercise only limited and enumerated powers – and that principle infused the entire idea and structure of the Constitution from 1788 onwards.



http://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amendments/amendment-x/the-tenth-amendment-gary-lawson/interp/15

[captain_kook]

Sweet- show me the part where the US Constitution OK's discrimination against people you don't like.

I want the specific language that allows for a multi-tired system of rights under which some people are less entitled than certain others.

[sweetwater5s9]

How may other rights should be tossed back to the States?



The Tenth Amendment’s simple language—“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people”—emphasizes that the inclusion of a bill of rights does not change the fundamental character of the national government. It remains a government of limited and enumerated powers, so that the first question involving an exercise of federal power is not whether it violates someone’s rights, but whether it exceeds the national government’s enumerated powers.

The only question posed by the Tenth Amendment is whether a claimed federal power was actually delegated to the national government by the Constitution, and that question is answered by studying the enumerated powers, not by studying the Tenth Amendment.

The Tenth Amendment simply makes clear that institutions of the federal government exercise only limited and enumerated powers – and that principle infused the entire idea and structure of the Constitution from 1788 onwards.



http://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/amendments/amendment-x/the-tenth-amendment-gary-lawson/interp/15

[captain_kook]

OK

mindless repetition - your usual response.

You have not supported your argument.

[sweetwater5s9]

The Enumerated Powers are a list of items found in Article I, section 8 of the US Constitution that set forth the authoritative capacity of the United States.

The only prerogatives of the Congress (as well as the Executive Branch and the Judicial Branch) are limited to those explicitly stated in the Constitution.


Article I, section 8 of the US Constitution

• The Congress shall have Power To lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises, to pay the Debts and provide for the common Defence and general Welfare of the United States; but all Duties, Imposts and Excises shall be uniform throughout the United States; [Altered by Amendment XVI "Income tax".]
  
• To borrow money on the credit of the United States;
• To regulate Commerce with foreign Nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian Tribes;
• To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization, and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;
• To coin Money, regulate the Value thereof, and of foreign Coin, and fix the Standard of Weights and Measures;
• To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States;
• To establish Post Offices and Post Roads;
• To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries;
• To constitute Tribunals inferior to the supreme Court;
• To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offenses against the Law of Nations;
• To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water;
• To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years;
• To provide and maintain a Navy;
• To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces;
• To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
• To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the Militia, and for governing such Part of them as may be employed in the Service of the United States, reserving to the States respectively, the Appointment of the Officers, and the Authority of training the Militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;
• To exercise exclusive Legislation in all Cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten Miles square) as may, by Cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the Seat of the Government of the United States, and to exercise like Authority over all Places purchased by the Consent of the Legislature of the State in which the Same shall be, for the Erection of Forts, Magazines, Arsenals, dock-Yards, and other needful Buildings; And
• To make all Laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into Execution the foregoing Powers, and all other Powers vested by this Constitution in the Government of the United States, or in any Department or Officer thereof.
  
  
  
  Period.

[wvit1001]

Letting the states set citizens rights is what lead to the federal equal rights rules.

[captain_kook]

Show me the part of the US Constitution that established legal discrimination
and different sets of rights for minorities.

Try, Sweeet.


Try to find it.

[duke_john]

It isn't there, which is why set-asides in admission numbers, contracts and other quota- or minority-driven entitlement programs are unconstitutional.