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After much debate, it was determined that the States would not adopt the Constitution as originally submitted until "further declamatory and restrictive clauses should be added" "in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its (the Constitutions) powers". (This quote is from the Preamble to the Amendments, which was adopted along with the Amendments but is mysteriously missing from nearly all modern copies.) The first ten Amendments were not ratified and added to the Constitution until December 15, 1791.

What has always puzzled me, and continues to do so is that the "preamble to the Amendments" of the Bill of Rights has never been published in a way that can be easily found by the modern American. I have never seen it. Even this article, which purports to clarify and demystify the meaning of the document, Fails to quote the entire preamble in its entirety. Or, better yet, include a facsimile of the actual preamble.

We can argue and debate the original meaning til doomsday, but lacking a complete set of documents, manuscripts and debates related to them, we are stuck with poor "translations" and opinions by charlatans with questionable agendas, huge egos and no interest whatsoever in simply discovering and disseminating facts and truth.