[Mad Dawgg]

I am fairly sure the founding fathers did not got to all the trouble of creating the Bill of Rights just to have them negated by a bunch of nattering nay-bobs in a State Assembly.

[fr_freak]

I am fairly sure the founding fathers did not got to all the trouble of creating the Bill of Rights just to have them negated by a bunch of nattering nay-bobs in a State Assembly.

Once, again, the Bill of Rights, as well as the rest of the federal Constitution, existed as restrictions on the federal government. How could the States negate something that didn't apply to them? If you don't know that the original arrangement was one where each state was sovereign, as if it were its own country, then you aren't familiar with that part of history. The federal government only had power over the States where the federal Constitution specifically gave it to them (i.e. interstate commerce). Otherwise, fedgov had NO say in how the States conducted their affairs.