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[ cheers and applause ] [ inaudible ] lawrence is amazing. kansas is amazing, especially for girls. they elected the first woman mayor in 1887 the next year, filled the council with women. women got the vote in kansas eight years before the 19th amendment. kansas has a lot to be proud of, and kansas has a lot to be on guard about. the precipitating event for this reporting trip to kansas this week happened over a year and a half ago, when a kansas doctor was murdered in wichita. he was assassinated because he provided abortions in his wichita clinic. named george tiller, he was shot and killed...

Violence, they buried the dead and built lawrence, kansas all over again. [ cheers and applause ] [ inaudible ] lawrence is amazing. kansas is amazing, especially for girls. they elected the first woman mayor in 1887 the next year, filled the council with women. women got the vote in kansas eight years before the 19th amendment. kansas has a lot to be proud of, and kansas has a lot to be on guard about. the precipitating event for this reporting trip to kansas this week happened over a year and a half ago, when a kansas doctor was murdered in wichita. he was assassinated because he provided ab...

Abridged by taking away any of the natural rights that people have, and therefore the natural rights -- >> larry: but it didn't define them, right? >> no, but just think of a natural right. wow you'd need an amendment to allow women to vote? they had the right to vote. >> larry: what were you thinking? >> the same thing with the 14th amendment. do you need an amendment to say the black people are the same as whites? that's what they did. the reason why they made those amendments is because they didn't want to use the 9th amendment, which they don't use. >> never used. >> but you would think th...

Whites? that's what they did. the reason why they made those amendments is because they didn't want to use the 9th amendment, which they don't use. >> never used. >> but you would think they would say, gee, they have the right to vote, gee, they have the same right. >> larry: has it been argued before, the ninth amendment? >> nope. >> larry: why do you think he went to jail? >> well, i think he went to jail, frankly, for many errors in the trial that took place. i think he would have and should have been acquitted. >> larry: his lawyer at the time? >> i don't want to -- let's just say -- >> la...

Introduced the bill of rights in the first congress of the united states. he did so at the urging of a number of people, including his best friend thomas jefferson who thought bill of rights was central to free government. he was concerned because he didn't want it interpreted no those were the only rights we have and thus the importance of 9th amendment. >> glenn: now we have, we have the hat problem but now we have a problem from the president. this is the second time it's been tried by a president. f.d.r., i believe, was the first, that said it's a negative, a charter of negative liberties....