So I have
this PDF from the Justice Department that includes in the third sentence "Each had the right to work in the United States..." And the quoted section of The Slaughterhouse Cases that said
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but it is difficult to see a justification for the assertion that the butchers are deprived of the right to labor in their occupation
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holding that the right to work suggested but not authoritatively proven in the PDF includes the "right to labor in their occupation". This may not be authoritative, but I believe it makes
the beginnings of a decent case that such a right exists in the 9th amendment much like neither the fourth nor the fifth amendment
explicitly enshrine a right to privacy, but taken together suggest there is such a right also in the 9th amendment.
To further define this argument, we can incorporate the thoughts of
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Originally Posted by Frank Ettin
The Constitution regulates the conduct of government, not that of private persons or entities. Nothing the corner store, your [non-governmental] landlord or your [non-governmental] employer might do (even if illegal for other reasons) can be unconstitutional, because their conduct is not subject to the Constitution.
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to say that all of this is suggestive that there is some narrowly tailored version of a right to
attempt to labor in one's chosen profession.