[KrisKrinkle]

Please see Post 45. I meant to post it to you and accidentally posted it to myself.

[GingisK]

Your positions are not validated by the Founding documents. Read the letters between the Founders as they debate the Bill of Rights. The Federalist and Anti-Federalist Papers are also critical. Keep in mind that the Founders wanted a minimum amount of Federal control of The People. They were entirely focused upon limiting the power of government and reducing restrictions upon Freedom. These are very critical concepts that must not be compromised.

Understand that all laws must have penalties associated with them; otherwise, they simply are not enforceable.

We are not governed by opinion. We are governed by laws. It is extremely important that the Bill of Rights governs only the government and not We The People.

[GingisK]

Look at it this way: How can We The People be expected to be accommodate or interfere with our peers in other clauses of each Amendment?...

Freedom to Petition the government
Quartering troops
Searches and seizures
Right to trial by jury
Protect against self-incrimination
Presumed innocence
Eminent domain
Powers delegated to the states

Those are just a few examples of rights that individuals clearly cannot control with respect to other individuals. How does one apply the idea that some of those Amendments are applied to We The People while some of them apply only to the government?

The fact that the Bill of Rights governs only the government is terribly important. To corrupt that notion is exceptionally dangerous to your Freedom.