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The idea that the Constitution is somehow directed by the security of individual rights doesn’t pass the most basic reading or history lesson.

It’s a delineation of governmental responsibilities between the various federal branches and the states. It wasn’t until the Bill of Rights was later ratified that it has anything to say about individual rights other than to deny them.

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This is either absurd or sorely uninformed. That the Bill of Rights was added later is essentially a procedural technicality.

The (lack of a) Bill of Rights was a major concern when the Constitution was drafted. It was passed with the promise that amending it with a Bill of Rights would be the first priority.

The Constitution was only passed without it so the convention wouldn't keep dragging on.

And because a large portion of the delegates thought that the numeration of the rights was unnecessary as it wasn't the point of a constitution.

And yet the BoR was the first set of Amendments as the founders realized the mistake of not including them.

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