[tpaine]

"The constitutions of each state had already established rights for their citizenry."
-gullible-


States establish our rights?
-- You boys just keep digging your holes deeper.

[GulliverSwift]

You still haven't provided any evidence at all for your cause. Let's see your historical references and jurisprudential citations.

There is nothing incorrect in my statement that each state's constitutions established individual rights. The very fact that it had occurred was one of the reasons that the federal Bill of Rights was created. You may not like the word "established" in this case, but it means that the states' constitutions guaranteed that the governments they created would not violate certain rights.

This is a fact, whether you like it our not. Nearly every state had declarations of basic rights which could not be infringed upon by the state or local government. Thus, people as citizens of their states (which were really independent countries) were already protected from state abuse. But citizens were not protected in the federal constitution of 1789. Thus, the BOR was born.