"How strangely will the tools of a tyrant pervert the plain meaning of words!" - Samuel Adams
Since the Constitution died long ago the BoR is null and void too. It's not as though we actually live in a free country even though most citizens think this is the case.
Actually the Bill of Rights were totally unnecessary. The constitution was a set of restrictions on the federal government. Putting any individual right into the document only leads to confusion. We are born with our rights all rights not given to the federal government in the constitution belong to the people.
We do not get any rights from the constitution or the government. The government cannot give you any right that it didn't take from you to begin with.
Michael
While I agree that our rights do not come from the U.S. Constitution, I respectfully disagree that the Bill of Rights was unnecessary. The Bill of Rights was proposed to PROTECT the rights of the citizen, not to grant them. In Utopia, a Bill of Rights would be unnecessary; however, we are far from Utopia.
Exactly. The Anti-Federalist feared that the Constitution without a Bill of Rights could possibly lead to infringement upon our inalienable rights. Putting them down on paper made sense as several of the founding States had them in their constitutions.
What a bunch of monumental DUMBASSES!!!!!!!
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