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   Andrea Junker :verified: (strandjunker@mstdn.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 04:45:38 JST Andrea Junker :verified:

   Samuel Alito: “There’s nothing in the Constitution that says a woman has the right to an abortion.”

   Well, you know what else isn’t in the Constitution? Nine justices on the Supreme Court.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 04:53:06 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     #SCOTUS

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     Well, as #UnJustice #Alito enjoys citing primeval #legal documents so much, I think I can raise his #Constitution citation by a way older #American document:

     "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain 👉unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.👈--
     That ...

     https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript

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     🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 04:55:12 JST 🎓 Doc Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

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     @Strandjunker The constitution passes that off to congress, which in turn must vote explicitly to define the number of judges. It used to be 6, now its 9.

     Abortion rights are set by the states, which is exactly how the constitution is designed to handle things not addressed int he constitution, either congress needs to address it or it passes on to the states.

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 04:59:54 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     #SCOTUS #Alito

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     ...to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --

     The #SupremeCourt constitutes the 3rd part of this Government, the #Judiciary.

     Every day, more of the Governed, who constitute the Sovereign in a democracy, believe that most of the #Justice|s aren't fulfilling their that primary function anymore.
     Well, the #Constitution provides a final remedy for this...

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 05:03:40 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     #SCOTUS #Alito

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     ...👉malfunction of their Government👈, too:

     "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it 👉is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government👈, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness..."

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     Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷 (kimsj@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 07:38:30 JST Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷

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     @HistoPol @Strandjunker Alito is taking that literally… men, not women!

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 15:33:25 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     #Legal status of women in the late 18th century
     #LawFedi #FediLaw

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     Granted, #Justice #Alito would most likely prefer to interpret it that way. However, this would be historically and legally incorrect.

     1. The earliest version of Webster's Dictionary from 1828 also had the meaning of "man/"men meaning "mankind:
     https://webstersdictionary1828.com/Dictionary/Men
     (Sense 2.)

     2. While married women's property mostly became a husband's property, husband and wife were...

     @Strandjunker

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 15:34:57 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     #Legal status of women in the late 18th century
     #LawFedi #FediLaw

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     considered as one legal entity, one of them could only be the other's property if (s)he had been a slave before the wedding.
     One of the key aspects of private property is that the owner can sell it and often even destroy it.

     In the #UK, there actually, in fact, the institution of #WifeSelling (e.g., unfaithful ones. However, AFAIC, this habit was never transferred to (common) law..

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 15:36:24 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     #Legal status of women in the late 18th century
     #LawFedi #FediLaw

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     ...in the Colonies, much less in the #USA.
     I recommend this interesting thread for more details:

     https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/22640/have-wives-ever-been-legally-a-mans-property-in-the-us

     So, married women had greatly diminished right, but they were people, i.e. "men" / part of mankind, unlike slaves.

     That said, having read (very) few of his opinions, he'd probably like to interpret the Declaration...

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     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 (histopol@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 19-Sep-2024 15:37:19 JST HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴

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     #Legal status of women in the late 18th century
     #LawFedi #FediLaw

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     ...that way.

     (Full disclosure:
     I'm not a constitutional lawyer.)

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