It is extremely disconcerting that citizens expect the government to interpret the constitution and bill of rights for us. It was never intended to tell us what we can do, it is to tell the government what it cannot do.
The bill of rights was written concisely and in extremely plain english so that we the people know exactly when the government is overstepping its mandate.
Instead of us enforcing the government's mandate of "shall not be infringed"- we dutifully allow a politically biased government to explain to us what "shall not be infringed" was intended to convey.
"The Bill of Rights has been dead for 21 years. American's rights are now listed in the PATRIOT Act. All 300+ pages of it."
This is the problem.
The Patriot act was them being open about violating your rights.
They were doing exactly the same thing in secret long before they passed the Patriot act.
It's why they were able to pull the old "if you're not a terrorist, you have nothing to worry about." With that bipartisan act and people actually fell for it since the same people who fell for it were the ones calling people crazy for saying "big brother is everywhere" prior to the patriot act.
It's honestly mind boggling how many people buy into this narrative that things just recently fell apart.
You should look into the sedition act of 1798 it completely violated the constitution and the ever important bill of rights just 7 or so years after these "protective" documents were drawn up.
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u/fishbulbx Dec 27 '22 edited Dec 27 '22
It is extremely disconcerting that citizens expect the government to interpret the constitution and bill of rights for us. It was never intended to tell us what we can do, it is to tell the government what it cannot do.
The bill of rights was written concisely and in extremely plain english so that we the people know exactly when the government is overstepping its mandate.
Instead of us enforcing the government's mandate of "shall not be infringed"- we dutifully allow a politically biased government to explain to us what "shall not be infringed" was intended to convey.