Understand that a right differs from a privilege.  Privileges are granted by, and can be taken away by another.  A right is what no one can take from you, because it is given to you by virtue of your being born to the human condition.  A right is what gives you dignity.

 

    Keeping that in mind, understand the we were never granted any rights by this "Bill of Rights," which was written by James Madison and adopted by the States in 1793, two years after the States at Convention tentatively adopted our present day constitution.

 

    The Bill of Rights, which has its own Preamble separate from the rest of the Constitution, would have better served us if it had been called the "Further restrictions on the transients that may occupy this government we erected at any given time in our history."  Understand clearly that those occupying our government are temporary transients that want to become permanent.  The only thing permanent here is our documents.

 

    Just what is these first ten Amendments then?  It is a list of the rights we already have for one thing?  These rights listed here are what governments have a propensity to violate when they attempt to become permanent fixtures--tyrants.

 

    This is a document that we can use to determine if government is getting out of the box we erected for it to exist among us.  We can look at any one of these restrictions we placed on the transients and determine rather or not they are violating these cast in stone restrictions.

 

    Just how do you enforce your rights on a looming, bigger than life, government?  You have to exercise them in the face of tyranny or give them up to a superior force.  Slavery is simply fear of a superior force.  We are supposed to be self governed.  We are supposed to be dangerous.  The transients occupying our government are supposed to fear us.  They are supposed to be afraid of violating one of our rights--they are not.  There is one place that tyranny cannot exist, and that is in the light of day.

 

    These first ten Amendments are pointed directly at the heart of our "never trust them" representatives,  I'll prove it here.  How is the first Amendment worded? 

I: "Congress shall make no law pertaining to the establishment of a religion, or the free exercise thereof." 

 

    The wording is aimed directly at Congress, where "all" laws originate.  The rest of these are worded similarly.  Go and study these listed rights and use a "Webster's 1828 Dictionary" to do it. You will find that we have much work to do.

 

John Conway

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