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Very nice deconstruction and synthesis of debate pro and con regarding the BOR.
Here’s a quote at the end:
“We the People are in a bad way. We’ve lost track of the proper relationship with our government and allow Scotus to define the breadth and depth of our rights. That is up to us, and not a few lawyers meeting in secret conclaves.”
I would add to this last comment that the 17th Amendment contributed substantially if not entirely to this lost relationship between the People and their federal government.
Some of the founders did rightly predict that scoundrels would aspire to public office. They understood human nature, and history has proven, before and since, that bad behavior gets worse when vested with power.
The anti-Trump Democrats and RINOs are prime examples of the "scoundrels" having reached the lowest level of pure unadulterated evil. They are fighting like crazy to avoid investigation and prosecution. Justice is coming.
Hamilton said it best when he stated that including a BoR would imply that the Feral Government would have otherwise had the power to restrict rights such as the 1st and 2nd amendments - even though such power was never delegated. He was exactly right and that is the core reason why so many today assume that the government has the power to restrict the right to bear arms / restrict speech etc ....
I find the argument about ex post facto laws to be spurious at best since the Feral Government IS empowered to pass laws in many areas and this restriction is imperative and included rightly in the body of the constitution.
The enemy trashed the defined powers limit long ago.
Without the BoR we would have no limits on government and no rights.