This is circling back again, again to jj's original point - which is the foundation of it all.

The Constitution was a framework for self governance. Not a creation of a nanny state whose purpose is to control the people.

Amendments 1-10 are the Bill of Rights, which protects the rights of the individual. The individual is not ignored until 9. 1-10 covers the individual and what the established federal government can't touch. The creation of the Constitution itself was born from the Declaration of Independence. They explicitly included these for the same reason you're suggesting the idea came about later. That if it weren't explicitly stated, they entire purpose of the creation of our Constitution would be lost.

What you're missing is that the foundation of the Constitution is the Declaration of Independence. There isn't a Constitution without the Declaration of Independence, on which its foundations are based. The people, not federal government, comes first. That's the entire point of rights being inalienable... that not every single right had to be explicitly written, outlined, or amended for it to be a freedom that couldn't be encroached by man (in this case the Constitution)... that they were given by a creator and could not be taken by man-made government of any level.

It's also why the first and second amendments are so important. If there should be a necessary call for another such declaration of independence, we the people would have the means to begin again if necessary. Were our federal government continue to bloat unsustainably as it's currently doing, I'd expect a convention of states to occur before it gets anywhere near that point in order to clean up the mess.

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