(07-23-2018, 03:18 PM)pirkster Wrote:

(07-20-2018, 07:48 PM)mikesez Wrote: You don't get to individual rights until Amendment 9, adopted a couple of years later. 

I'm not sure where you were educated (it was a strikingly poor education,) but the first 10 Amendments are called the Bill of Rights.  (Not just 9.)
They certainly weren't outlining the rights of government.  They outlined the rights of the individual, which is why they're the first 10.
It's not "we the federal government."  It's "we the people..."

I'm not sure you read what I wrote.  Please try again. 
Remember, just because the Constitution says the federal government can't do something, doesn't mean that state and local governments can't do it.  At least it didn't, until after the 14th amendment was passed.
The idea that the people have rights that neither the states nor the feds can violate does not appear in the text of the Constitution until Amendment 9.

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