From: terrell@sam.neosoft.com (Buford Terrell)
Date: Mon, 17 Jul 95 16:32:53 PDT
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Root Causes
Message-ID: <199507172337.SAA10144@sam.neosoft.com>
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>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."
>                                                      ^^^^^^^ 
>> [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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