Originally Posted by 36shadow

One that new a lot more about the bill of rights would not agree with you. Because in fact the bill of rights caused a big divide between the federalist and the anit-federalist from the moment Madison introduced it. The anti-federalist thought that by only listing certain rights that other rights would be taken away from citazens.

This is the main reason the 9th amendmant was put in the bill of rights. Or are you not familure with the 9th. It is in this and numerous papers written by the founders that prove that the bill of rights was written to give us specific rights per say. Rather it was to limit the govt. from taking these specific rights.

It is in fact a limiting thing not an empowering thing because one could not cover every single right a free citazen had in a single document.

The belief of the founders and the exact words of the 9th amendmant prove this to be so.