From: Michael Froomkin <Michael@umlaw.demon.co.uk>
Jim didn't take my Con Law I course.
In message <199507161819.OAA06090@bb.hks.net> Jim Ray writes: [cuts throughout]
Amendment IX -- "The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
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[The right to write code was among many rights NOT enumerated.]
Very hard to argue that the right to write code (as opposed to, say, the right to write in code) existed in the late 18th century; hence it is hard to argue that it could be "retained" today.
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