excerpt from:
https://constitutioncenter.org/interactive-constitution/interpretation/amendment-x/interps/129
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The sense of the Convention delegates was that a bill of rights, in the context of the federal Constitution, was unnecessary and even dangerous. It was considered unnecessary because the national government was a limited government that could only exercise those powers granted to it by the Constitution, and it had been granted no power to violate the most cherished rights of the people. There was, for example, no need for a provision protecting freedom of speech against Congress because, as James Wilson put it, “there is given to the general government no power whatsoever concerning it.” Edmund Randolph made the same point regarding freedom of religion, emphasizing that “[n]o part of the Constitution, even if strictly construed, will justify a conclusion that the general government can take away or impair the freedom of religion.” Similar remarks were made during the drafting and ratification process regarding juries in civil cases, general warrants, and cruel and unusual punishment. The consistent line of the Constitution’s defenders was that no bill of rights was necessary because the limited and enumerated powers of the national government simply did not include the power to violate those rights."
My favorite part of this is the phrase "the national government was a
limited government that could only exercise those powers granted to it by the Constitution, and it had been
granted no power to violate the most cherished rights of the people.I guess soon after the first draft, they decided what the hell, lets enshrine the most cherished rights of the people into the constitution. This way people won't squabble over them, and it'll be a real bitch to try and remove those rights. Everything ELSE will go to the states. That's the tenth amendment to the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution in a nutshell. Want to change it? Want to make abortion one of the American people's most cherished rights? Tired of right wingers calling you bad names? Hate guns? Hate those Christians who are against abortion and homosexuality? Want your 3rd graders to know all about trannies and white privilege? Just cobble together a new constitutional convention and let's strip out those nasty old, cherished rights of the American people. Here ya go, I'll start with a draft of the new 2nd amendment:
"A heavily regulated welfare state, being necessary to the survival of the democrat party, the right of 50% of the people (no dudes) to kill their unborn children without cause, shall not be infringed."
You nazi loving, big government loving communists have been given a FAR easier pathway to perpetuate your child murdering obsession. The state house and the state supreme courts. No intervention from the federal government at all because it's not a federal issue. Hell, I would argue that it's not even a state issue but a municipal one.
States like Texas and Florida have been heavily regulating abortion lately. Where are the federal troops?
The left has been given a HUGE opportunity to vigorously exercise their obsession with mob rule (they call it democracy), but now it seems they want to run back to federal mommy and daddy. Bunch of fucking butthurt twinklepuffs if you ask me.