[hedgetrimmer]

Then you'd be wrong.

From our own federal government re: The Rights of the People:

The new constitution provided a blueprint for how the national government would function, but it did not contain a section specifically outlining the rights of individual citizens. A public debate quickly arose. Advocates of the draft constitution argued that guarantees of individual rights were not needed. Others, however, aware of the explicit rights guaranteed in earlier documents such as the British Bill of Rights (1689) and the Virginia Declaration of Rights in 1776, believed that some specific provision stating the rights of individuals was necessary.

Jefferson's position gained advocates, and a compromise was reached. State legislatures agreed to ratify the draft document with the understanding that the first national legislature meeting under the new constitution would pass amendments guaranteeing individual liberties. That is precisely what occurred. By 1791, these 10 amendments, known as the Bill of Rights, had become part of the supreme law of the land.

In fact, the Bill of Rights can be read as the definitive statement of that most American of values: the idea that the individual is prior to and takes precedence over any government.

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Its not suprising though. Many people in America have been BRAINWASHED into a very communistic mindset by the main stream media (owned by foreign interests) and by communists and socialists in our education system. They have NO CONCEPT of the foundations of our government-- that the individual is sovereign and the government is our servant NOT OUR MASTER.

[John Valentine]

Amazing.

You post references that directly and explicitly back up every single point I have made, then pronounce me wrong.

As I have said, it must be wonderful to possess a mind that can entertain 20 dinstinct and mutually exclusive ideas at once without pausing for so much as a breath.

So, let me ask you this: If our government was set up with the purpose of protecting individual rights (or liberty as your references suggest), then why was it necessary to add provisions to protect these very rights from the government itself?

Dwell on that for a while, my socialist friend.