If the U.S. Department of Agriculture shuts down at midnight tonight,
food stamp benefits will be delivered for the month of October, forest
fires will continue to be fought, meat and poultry will still be inspected,
grain inspection will continue, laboratory animals will be fed and the
rural development division will still monitor government loans.
But USDA will not release any new production statistics, most of the
rest of USDA will shut down and its website may go dark.
Took them awhile to get it spelled out. But it also took them 100 years to end slavery.
One might also suggest the freedom from searches and seizures is also fairly clear. Be sure to tell that the TSA agent that is groping your genitals. Oh and the TSA is still fully funded.
The Constitution does not explicitly give you the right to vote in the same way that it gives you the right to free speech.
Wikipedia has this to say about it:
"The "right to vote" is not explicitly stated in the U.S. Constitution except in the above referenced amendments, and only in reference to the fact that the franchise cannot be denied or abridged based solely on the aforementioned qualifications. In other words, the "right to vote" is perhaps better understood, in layman's terms, as only prohibiting certain forms of legal discrimination in establishing qualifications for suffrage. States may deny the "right to vote" for other reasons."
Maybe not in the 'Bill of Rights' itself, but it's in other areas of the constitution - for example, the 15th Amendment. Or the 26th Amendment. The parent comment is correct in essence - these are all amendments to the constitution, just like the 2nd.
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Yeah who needs that pesky regulation of food quality anyway.
Now if gun permits were suspended, it would get an exemption almost immediately.
I realize you're being sarcastic, but food inspections are continuing. From http://www.agweek.com/event/article/id/21778/
Your gun permit is in the bill of rights. Why do you need a web site for that?
So is your right to vote - why do we need voter registration?
I can have only one vote, and any number of firearms :)
Where?
14th, 15th, 19th, 23rd, 24th, 26th amendments?
Took them awhile to get it spelled out. But it also took them 100 years to end slavery.
One might also suggest the freedom from searches and seizures is also fairly clear. Be sure to tell that the TSA agent that is groping your genitals. Oh and the TSA is still fully funded.
The Constitution does not explicitly give you the right to vote in the same way that it gives you the right to free speech.
Wikipedia has this to say about it:
"The "right to vote" is not explicitly stated in the U.S. Constitution except in the above referenced amendments, and only in reference to the fact that the franchise cannot be denied or abridged based solely on the aforementioned qualifications. In other words, the "right to vote" is perhaps better understood, in layman's terms, as only prohibiting certain forms of legal discrimination in establishing qualifications for suffrage. States may deny the "right to vote" for other reasons."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voting_rights_in_the_United_St...
Maybe not in the 'Bill of Rights' itself, but it's in other areas of the constitution - for example, the 15th Amendment. Or the 26th Amendment. The parent comment is correct in essence - these are all amendments to the constitution, just like the 2nd.