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To: Mojave
Because in your mind, the Constitution was conceived and written on the day it was passed. That there was no forethought as to what should go into it.

Poor you...

795 posted on 06/26/2009 5:03:15 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (III)
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To: Dead Corpse
Because in your mind, the Constitution was conceived and written on the day it was passed.

No, you've simply been caught repeatedly asserting that it was written years before it actually was.

While there were actual discussions of the proposals for the creation of a federal bill of rights, as in the Federalist Papers, no. 84, those discussions stated that they would create exceptions to powers that were never actually granted to the federal government. So here's something else for you hate about the Framers.

"I go further, and affirm that bills of rights, in the sense and in the extent in which they are contended for, are not only unnecessary in the proposed constitution, but would even be dangerous. They would contain various exceptions to powers which are not granted; and on this very account, would afford a colourable pretext to claim more than were granted."
But you're free to continue claiming that the Bill of Right in the federal Constitution secretly amended the state constitutions. Willful ignorance and anarchism go together.
799 posted on 06/26/2009 10:28:47 AM PDT by Mojave (Don't blame me. I voted for McClintock.)
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