[takenoprisoner]

“The Bill of Rights in the Constitution does NOT grant any rights, it recognizes them as pre-existing. There is a huge difference. Pollsters are ignorant of this fact, in all likelihood.”

One has to wonder where we would be today had our Constitution not recognized them. Indeed, our rights are taken for granted Still, communities like Chicago, LA, DC amongst others have denied them. I figure were it not for our Constitution recognizing them in the beginnning, we would likely have few if any pre-existing rights rights remaining whether recognized or granted.

[stand watie]

TRUE.

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[Gondring]

I often wonder that myself. And I have to admit that the Anti-Federalists might have actually been right on that point...which is funny, since it's one of the few places I had thought the Anti-Federalists were wrong.

That is, perhaps if we hadn't had any rights enumerated, then there wouldn't have been such a misunderstanding that the Constitution is the limit of the government's powers and that ALL the other powers are our own.

Since people seem to ignore the 10th Amendment anyway, I suspect that the Bill of Rights was necessary and it was one of the things that has preserved our rights from even more infringement than we have.