RE: What am I? Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, or Independent?
July 2, 2014 at 10:41 am
(This post was last modified: July 2, 2014 at 10:43 am by Heywood.)
(July 2, 2014 at 9:33 am)blackout94 Wrote:(July 1, 2014 at 4:36 pm)Cthulhu Dreaming Wrote: 9th amendment.
You're welcome.
Incidentally, before you go arguing that it's still not in the 9th amendment, I'll remind you that the Constitution is an enumeration of Federal government *powers*, and nowhere listed is the power to infringe on the people's pursuit of happiness.
Inasmuch as the right to privacy exists, but is not specifically enumerated, so does the right to pursue happiness.
I am not looking forward to debate your divergences, but the right to happiness, in the US or other country should be interpreted with diligence. Why? Because people could argue absurdities that would make them happy. Imagine this, I don't want to work because I'm lazy, and I argue the state should still pay me welfare my whole life because it makes me happy. Would it be legitimate? No. There is a right to pursue happiness (in my constitution there is the right to fulfillment, not to happiness, but it's pretty similar
), not the right to be happy, being happy will depend on yourself as long as minimum conditions are given.
In this country some courts have decided that bakers of wedding cakes must bake cakes for gay couples getting married. They force these bakers to participate in weddings that they find objectionable. The argument is if they don't want to serve gay weddings, they shouldn't sell wedding cakes......no right to persue happiness for those people.
Persuit of happiness isn't a right guaranteed by the Constitution. Countries should simply be governed in a manner that maximizes people's ability to persue happiness.
