Why the 9th?

My father sent me the fol­low­ing email today:
I was talk­ing with one of our social stud­ies teach­ers today who is just fin­ish­ing a unit on the Con­sti­tu­tion with his eighth grade stu­dents. He men­tioned the 9th Amend­ment, and that con­ver­sa­tion led me to think about how the 9th Amend­ment relates to the ten­sion between those who […]

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A Thousand Time Yes!

The ques­tion posed to me by a dear friend: Do you believe that gov­ern­ment should have a right to inter­fere with a woman’s right to choose?
I should qual­ify my answer. The fed­eral gov­ern­ment is granted no power to con­sti­tu­tion­ally inter­fere with — or for that mat­ter pro­tect — abor­tion.
But should state gov­ern­ment exer­cise such […]

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