The 9th Amendment:
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
There is no place in law where people's rights have or can be denied to them. Virtually all law can be set aside by any individual person who decides he does not want to follow the particular law. Some cases may be easy; others may be difficult.
The basics of how this works is this.
1. You are your own property. Your labor is your property because it was created by you. The things that you use your labor for are your own property.
2. If anybody messes with you, he is messing with your property. You can sue him in court, man to man, to have your property returned to you, or at least to get compensation for your property and your time. This happens all the time. The method for doing this often includes letter writing between the two people, before the thing goes to court.
3. A government official is a man or woman. If he uses his governmental office to mess with your property, you can sue him as a man/woman, just like you would sue anyone else who messed with your property.
People are so used to the idea of getting an attorney, and fighting against all kinds of fancy legal stuff with fancy legal stuff of their own, that they forget the simplicity involved with a man (or woman) messing with your property.
No government person can take your property. If there is an emergency need that allows him to take your property under emergency, he must compensate you. The compensation cannot be general. It must be clear, direct compensation, value for value, just as though you sold your property to him.
People fight the wrong thing when they fight government. Government never acts on its own. Government is paperwork; it can't act on its own. Paperwork can't jump up and do anything. It is always a man or woman that does something to you. Sue the man or woman, not the government.
But stay in honor. Write letters to him/her first. Document what you do. This gives him/her the opportunity to make it right with you before you waste the court's time. It also documents that you have attempted to deal with him/her as a record to be used in court when the time comes.
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