[VRWCmember]

You thought they took two years for an up or down vote on Amendments they didn't rewrite?

Your prior post said:

Our Bill of Rights was not ratified, or even written, in 1789.

Proposed amendments offered in Congress by James Madison, 1789 June 8.
Proposed amendments reported by the Select Committee, 1789 July 28.
Proposed amendments passed by the House of Representatives, 1789 August 24.
Proposed amendments passed by the Senate, 1789 September 9
Amendments proposed by Congress to the States, 1789 September 25.

So by the October date of the quote stating that the Bill of Rights asserts certain individual rights that cannot be infringed by any majority, not only had the BOR been written, but passed by both houses and referred to the states for ratification.

[Mojave]

So by the October date of the quote stating that the Bill of Rights asserts certain individual rights that cannot be infringed by any majority

Which were subsequently rewritten and revised.

[Dead Corpse]

There is no Declaration of Rights, and the laws of the general government being paramount to the laws and constitution of the several States, the Declarations of Rights in the separate States are no security. Nor are the people secured even in the enjoyment of the benefit of the common law. -George Mason. Objections to the Constitution

Sounds like they knew exactly what they were doing. It wasn't until 1833, when Marshall was in the twilight of his years and possibly bordering on senility, that the Courts turned this on it's head.