Re: [OT] Judges discover constitutional rights to bike lanes and also drug use in homeless shelters

BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:

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Regardless, however, the idea that bike lanes would be constitutionally
protected in America would have to be one of the most absurd legal takes
I've ever heard. Bikes weren't even invented until 1817 so there's
no question the Founders didn't intend for "freedom of biking" when
they wrote the Constitution. And regulation of traffic of any kind is
squarely in the jurisdiction of the state and local governments per the
10th Amendment. Which is why I started hyperventilating when I mistakenly
thought Rhino's article was about the U.S. at first.

The Founding Fathers didn't intend that constitutional language would
be used to restrict liberty, anticipating changes in technology. Nor was
the Constitution written to restrict liberty to enumerated civil rights
only, hence the Ninth Amendment. Freedom to travel predates the
Constitution and wouldn't have been a right the Founders would have
infringed upon.

Or do you believe 'freedom of the press" was limited to only that mass
communication produced by printing press and distributed by means that
hadn't changed since the 18th century, or does it mean any form of
publishing using any method to fix words and ideas and any means of
distribution as the technologhy of commucation changes?

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