What was the Bill of Rights written for, the Federal Government (Congress), the states, or both? Your knowledge or naivete in on the line in answering this question, so be careful.
What was the Bill of Rights written for, the Federal Government (Congress), the states, or both? Your knowledge or naivete in on the line in answering this question, so be careful.
The states are made up of people, the people of the several states make up the powers of federal government.
The people and the states are the same thing, ( see the 10th amendment ) the amendments were written and agreed upon by the representatives of the several states.
The 10th amendment.
The states make their own laws where they are not prohibited from doing so by the bill of rights ( for instance the 2nd amendment )
The second amendment says the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed period, it does not mean that the feds can not infringe on your rights but the state can nor the other way around, government, state or federal can not do that.
The federal Government can only have the powers that was given to them by the states, also there are a few things the states do not have the power to do, they can not make laws that take our rights away named in the bill of rights,
The laws in the bill of rights were not made by the federal government, they were agreed to by the representatives of the people of the states.
Our founders knew that a federal government could go out of control, and they also knew that a state government could do the same thing, they knew what a little Hitler could do state or federal, Government draws little Hitlers like sugar draws flies.