a) the rights of the people, or
b) the powers of government?
I say again, where does the constitution provide the people the right to keep and bear a bale of dope?
No. It isn't the JOB of the U.S. Federal Constitution to do that.
Now answer my question: Does the Constitution
a) Enumerate the rights of the people
or
b) Enumerate the powers of the federal government
It's a very very simple question. Pick an answer, and it will tell us everything we need to know about you.
looks like you're just not getting the point, my confused would-be patriot friend. The Constitution does not grant ANY RIGHTS to ANYONE and in fact CANNOT DO SO under the moral and philosophical rules to which our Founders subscribed: namely, that all rights are God-given (or "natural") and that the purpose of government is to defend these ALREADY EXISTING rights, not create or distribute them. This is a very basic premise of our republican system of governance, but one which is unfortunately forgotten or deliberately disregarded by too many in a position to know better. The point the previous poster makes is that the Constitution does not NEED to specifically give the official OK to ANY activity of the citizens... its purpose (certainly in the "Bill of Rights" portion or the first 10 ammendments) is to LIMIT the sphere of potential tyrrany by government by limiting the power and reach of government. Any power not SPECIFICALLY granted to government is assumed to belong to the people or to no one at all. One does not need to look for positive references to an activity in the writings of the founders or in the document itself to understand that point.