Georgia Magazine - May 2012 - (Page 7)

Liberty notes Rights retained by the people The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. —Ninth Amendment Alexander Hamilton, a member of the Constitutional Convention of 1787, argued against adding a bill of rights to our Constitution. In “Federalist No. 84,” one of a series of essays written by Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay to promote ratiﬁcation of the Constitution, Hamilton said bills of rights were agreements between kings and subjects and “have no application to constitutions, professedly founded upon the power of the people.” He wrote that the people “retain everything” and that “they have no need of particular reservations,” referring to a list of rights. He said the Preamble to the Constitution was “… a better recognition of popular rights than volumes … in several of our State bills of rights.” James Wilson, another delegate to the convention, also argued against a bill of rights: “… an imperfect enumeration would throw all implied power into the scale of the government, and the rights of the people would be incomplete.” Wilson believed that an incomplete listing of rights could be used to deny individual rights. Madison, who drafted the Bill of Rights, was familiar with these arguments. He endeavored to answer Hamilton’s and Wilson’s concerns with the Ninth Amendment. The Ninth Amendment made it clear that the federal government would not have the power to deny individual rights that were not speciﬁcally mentioned in the document. —Jim Jess For more about the Ninth Amendment, see page 38B of the May 2012 digital edition online at www.georgiamagazine.org. web exclusive Oh Baby! I’m sooooo excited! Enter our online trivia contest for a chance to win $25! Go to georgiamagazine.org to see what all the excitement’s about! Guess where this is and you could Picture this? Win $25! In “Picture this?” we reward the reader whose photo of a Georgia place is published—as well as the person who correctly guesses where the photo was taken—with $25 each. The winner’s name (drawn at random from among all correct guesses) and the answer will appear in a future issue. If you’re ready to guess, or have a photo for us to consider, email picturethis@georgia emc.com or mail to “Picture this,” P.O. Box 1707, Tucker, GA 30085. Submissions for consideration should be 300-dpi photos you have taken of locations that are easy to identify, but not too prominent. Please send photos and guesses separately. Guesses for the May contest must be received by May 18, 2012. With all correspondence, please include your name, address and phone number. Our winners from the March 2012 issue are Carol Obenshain, of Richmond Hill, who took the photo, and Glenda E.A. Anderson, of Savannah, who correctly guessed that it is the First African Baptist Church, on Cumberland Island. Many correct guessers noted that the church, founded in 1893, was the location of the 1996 wedding of John F. Kennedy Jr. and Carolyn Bessette. 7 MARCH 2012 Celebrating the Georgia lifestyle GEMC ® web exclusive May 2012 More online at www.georgiamagazine.org http://www.georgiamagazine.org http://www.georgiamagazine.org http://www.georgiamagazine.org http://www.georgiamagazine.org

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Georgia Magazine - May 2012

Georgia Magazine - May 2012
Contents
Viewpoint
Mailbox
Liberty Notes
Picture This?
Georgia News
More about Moen
Learn about the HGTV Green Home
Currents
Georgia's Energy Outlook
Investing in the future
Around Georgia
Where to stay and eat in Albany
Home energy report 2012
Electrical safety
May’s online trivia contest
My Georgia
Georgia Cooks
Second helping: Cheese
Calendar of Events
Snapshot
Bonus Snapshot submissions
Liberty notes; Plant of the month

Georgia Magazine - May 2012