The Bill of Rights
Passed by Congress September 25, 1789.
Ratified December 15, 1791.
“A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.”—Thomas Jefferson
December 15, 1791
Preamble
Congress OF THE United States
begun and held at the City of New York, on Wednesday
the Fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.
THE Conventions of a number of the States having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added: And as extending the ground of public confidence in the Government, will best insure the beneficent ends of its institution
RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following Articles be proposed to the Legislatures of the several States, as Amendments to the Constitution of the United States, all or any of which Articles, when ratified by three fourths of the said Legislatures, to be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of the said Constitution; viz.:
ARTICLES in addition to, and Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress, and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the fifth Article of the original Constitution.
It is worthy to note that there is no amendment in the Bill of Rights that is given precedence over another. The Second Amendment, for example, may be the most important because without it, the others are meaningless. The major thing to remember is that all of them are equal in one respect. They were never meant to be violated. They were said to be inalienable.
A “Constitutional Scholar” such as Obama1 should know that. Unfortunately, Democrat and Republican, alike, attack these in order to “protect us” and “make us safe.”2 The plain fact of the matter is those first ten amendments in their intended strength are supposed to make us safe and protect us. Weakening them only strengthens government and they know that.
Thus they contort the words to circumvent even Supreme Court decisions just prior to their being selected for the Supreme Court themselves. One might say, for example, that the Second Amendment is not “incorporated to the States.” It isn’t? What, then, is the purpose of the Constitution?
We will explore each in turn over a period of time. We will show you the plan truth as it was understood by the founding fathers.
The Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States. We will explore each one separately. You may notice that the amendments are out of order. My apologies for that. WordPress will have to work on that.
1 Cass Sunstein assessment. Not ours.
2 See Also: Words not in the Constitution.
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