[Bloody Sam Roberts]

For all the good they do, it kinda’ makes one wonder why we have a bill of rights.

Were it a different age, I would have one plastered on my shield as I enter into battle against The Regime.

Should it come to it in my time, I will have one in my pocket at the appropriate time.

[Jacquerie]

My larger point is that absent institutions to secure our rights, they are but, as per James Madison, “parchment barriers.”

Press freedom (under major attack) was unencumbered not because of the 1A, but because the press could make life miserable for pols who came down on the press. Now, that is changing as the media increasingly view their wealth as associated with the rat party.

Our God given right to self defense is alive not because of the 2A, but because of gun rights groups who readily stomp on pols who think otherwise.

The 10A is dead because the states kicked themselves out of the senate.

Unless backed up with structure and institutions, paper barriers are, for practical purposes, useless.