http://owensrhetoric.com/2008/06/12/a-revolution-that-has-no-parallel-federalist-no-14/ Tue, 04 Oct 2011 04:52:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://owensrhetoric.com/2008/06/12/a-revolution-that-has-no-parallel-federalist-no-14/#comment-278 Sat, 28 Mar 2009 07:11:57 +0000 http://owensrhetoric.wordpress.com/?p=810#comment-278 [...] Lily, at her blaseblah blog, makes some excellent points on the concept of limited government and the 10th amendment: This is especially fascinating in light of the fact that it was written pre-Bill of Rights. Isn’t this the Tenth Amendment** in embryo?! [...]

]]> http://owensrhetoric.com/2008/06/12/a-revolution-that-has-no-parallel-federalist-no-14/#comment-165 Fri, 13 Jun 2008 20:50:32 +0000 http://owensrhetoric.wordpress.com/?p=810#comment-165 interesting note on F14 showing the Federalist notion that a Bill of Rights would constrain, rather than protect, rights – in that, by the act of setting out some specifics, you threaten the non-enumerated, unspecified rights. I reckon that’s what #s 9 and 10 are for – but I don’t have the sense that 9 and 10 are used (especially 9) in that catch-all sense they clearly are intended to serve.

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