domer76 (02-22-2018)
domer76 (02-22-2018)
If you hate an article of the Bill of Rights, you might just hate the Constitution.
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
No, neither the federalists nor the antifederalists were happy with the Constitution as it was. It was passed without for the purposes of expediency, desiring to replace the existing government as quickly as possible. A small handful of people didn't believe the federal government would pose a threat to the liberties eventually protected by the Bill of Rights, because they felt that state governments still wielded the vast majority of powers within the country.
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
The framers did not think the Bill of Rights were needed because the government was not given the power to restrict speech, press, etc. They were not left out in order to ratify the document quickly. They were left out because the framers thought they were not needed. The antifederalists feared the new constitution because it gave the central government much more power than it had under the Articles. The federalists agreed to add some amendments after the document was ratified if the antifederalists would support ratification (in NY). Turns out the antifederalists were right since the powers of the central government have been broadly interpreted.
Only a small handful of men were naïve enough to believe that. The Bill of Rights was not left-out due to their content, but due to the time that it would have added to the convention to go through and debate each article. As it was, there were 12 articles proposed by the First Congress, and only ten of them passed.
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
They weren't in that much of a hurry. They could have easily included those same provisions in the denied powers of Article 1, Section 9. There was no need to write and debate them separately.
You probably know the story that one of the 2 proposed amendments that was not ratified originally was eventually ratified in 1992 to become the 27th amendment although it had basically become obsolete by the time it was ratified. Most of the credit for the ratification goes to a University of Texas student who took the task upon himself as part of a class paper for which he received a C. He recently returned to UT and his grade was change to A.
"It [the draft] is duty rather than slavery. I part with the author on the caviler idea that individual freedom (whatever that may be to the person) leads to nirvana, anyone older that 12 knows that is BS."
-(Midcan5)
"Allow me to masturbate my patriotism furiously and publicly at this opportunity."
-(Ib1yysguy)
"There is no 'equal opportunity' today unless the government makes it so."
-(apple0154 )
"abortion is not killing Its birth control"
-(Desh)
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