Originally posted by Geronimo
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the doctrine of incorporation, ie the dual citizenship created by the civil war amendments, makes it necessary to constrain all legislatures
the Bill of Rights was not meant to be an encyclopedic listing of all our rights, hence the 9th Amendment
The Framers enumerated the few rights they considered most in danger, bodily autonomy is at the heart of those enumerated rights.
Free religion, speech, liberty, property etc are based on bodily autonomy. Your brain, your mouth, your freedom, your labor, your privacy, all these stem from it. As Rabbit said, its a given, they assumed it from the start. Thats why it took an amendment for a federal ban on booze.
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