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Re: Root Causes
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>From: Michael Froomkin <[email protected]>
>Jim didn't take my Con Law I course.
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>In message <[email protected]> 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."
> ^^^^^^^
>> [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.
What about Jacquard loom cards?
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