The first Congress of the United States approves 12 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, and sends them to the states for ratification. The amendments, known as the Bill of Rights, were designed to protect the basic rights of U.S. citizens, guaranteeing the freedom of speech, press, assembly, and exercise of religion; the right to fair legal procedure and to bear arms; and that powers not delegated to the federal government were reserved for the states and the people.
Influenced by the English Bill of Rights of 1689, the Bill of Rights was also drawn from Virginia’s Declaration of Rights, drafted by George Mason in 1776. Mason, a native Virginian, was a lifelong champion of individual liberties, and in 1787 he attended the Constitutional Convention and criticized the final document for lacking constitutional protection of basic political rights. In the ratification process that followed, Mason and other critics agreed to approve the Constitution in exchange for the assurance that amendments would immediately be adopted.
In December 1791, Virginia became the 10th of 14 states to approve 10 of the 12 amendments, thus giving the Bill of Rights the two-thirds majority of state ratification necessary to make it legal. Of the two amendments not ratified, the first concerned the population system of representation, while the second prohibited laws varying the payment of congressional members from taking effect until an election intervened. The first of these two amendments was never ratified, while the second was finally ratified more than 200 years later, in 1992.
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It is too bad we have let the federal government nullify most of our rights over the years.
What rights have been nullified? One of the great things about America is you can do almost any darn thing you want, with reasonable exceptions. The Bill of Rights does not say what you can do. It says what the government cannot do.
1.) The government cannot make you worship or lock you up for saying what you think.
2.) The government cannot confiscate your guns.
3.) The government cannot let troops set up camp at your house uninvited.
4.) The government cannot search your stuff without proving just cause.
5.) The government cannot force you to incriminate yourself.
There are five more, but these are the biggies. What is it you would want to do that the government has taken away your right to do?
The governments of many states prevented people from gathering together to worship.
Governments of many states made it illegal to gather to “redress” the government.
The government has “infringed” on the right to own certain weapons
Ask Brionna Taylor how “secure” she was in her house.
Was Roger Stone deprived of his liberty when he was imprisoned by a biased federal judge before his trial ever began?
EVERYTHING you say or write through various communications devices is read/listened to and stored for them to use at their leisure. All of this done without a warrant.
The government uses various electronic devices to track your every movement and can use that information against you whenever they want.
The 10th Amendment was all but annulled with the war between the states with the final spike to the heart with the 17th Amendment.
If you cannot see how our liberties are being eroded, then you are blind
I better understand your grievances. Many are incident specific rather than the law being changed to repeal codified freedom.
Many of the abuses have come at the hands of black robed lawyers in the despotic branch of government.
1.) Ever been to a city hall meeting where they’re trying to ramrod through some corporate welfare bullshit? 2.) “Shall not be infringed” has been infringed all to hell. 3.) Occupying your property temporarily while killing your pets and terrifying your children(if you’re lucky) is definitely not quartering troops. You got me there. 4.) Just about any traffic stop. 5.) Sobriety checkpoints. DUI cases in general.
The daddyo doesn’t know how to “tab”.
Personally, I liked Madison’s original draft of the one we now call the Second Amendment:
“The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed; a well armed and well regulated militia being the best security of a free country: but no person religiously scrupulous of bearing arms shall be compelled to render military service in person.”