[mrsmith]

Of course the much edited quote of Gallatin does not call for federal power over the state.
"The whole of the Bill [of Rights] is a declaration of the right of the people at large or considered individuals...It establishes some rights of the individual as unalienable and which consequently, no majority has a right to deprive them of."
"Rights of the people at large": IE collective rights at the state level, "the majority" refers to congress.

Gallatin was not a Founder but an influential person. He was a member of the 1788 Harrisonburg Pennsylvania convention that requested a Bill of Rights to assure that:

" every reserve of the rights of individuals, made by the several constitutions of the states in the Union, to the citizens and inhabitants of each state respectively, shall remain inviolate, except so far as they are expressly and manifestly yielded or narrowed by the national Constitution. "

[Dead Corpse]

No free government was ever founded, or ever preserved its liberty, without uniting the characters of the citizen and soldier in those destined for the defense of the state...Such are a well regulated militia, composed of the freeholders, citizen and husbandman, who take up arms to preserve their property, as individuals, and their rights as freemen.
-- Richard Henry Lee