The point of parallelizing is to appeal to the similarity in structure or phrasing between the two statements to justify asserting the second on the grounds of the first.
Asserting the Tenth Amendment may be a viable option".
Just try asserting the fifth amendment to avoid giving us your private accounts".
"Depending on what the federal government comes out with here, asserting the Tenth Amendment may be a viable option, but we don't know the details.
Republicans assert the first dose of stimulus spending has been squandered on dubious projects.
The District Court held that Kirtsaeng could not assert the "first sale" defense because, in its view, that doctrine does not apply to "foreign-manufactured goods" (even if made abroad with the copyright owner's permission).
She was, she asserts, the first chef in New York who took lobster rolls, fried clams and other sturdy utility players of New England seafood cookery and lifted them to all-star status on her menu.
Surely 'phlogiston does not exist' and 'caloric does not exist' mean different things; Lavoisier asserted the first and denied the second with apparent consistency.
"He can assert the Fifth Amendment".
According to the judge, Facebook could not assert the Fourth Amendment rights of its users.
Such a rule is, of course, one which may allow a defendant to assert the Fourth Amendment rights of another.
