Re:basic civics, people... (Score 1)

Actually, in essesnce the Bill of Rights is the only portion of the constitiution that truly does apply to the people. In fact, there were those during the writing of the Consitution that was have no part of it until it contained some specific laws to keep the people safe from tyranny, "Thomas Jefferson, generally in favor of the new government, wrote to Madison that a bill of rights was 'what the people are entitled to against every government on earth.'" http://www.jmu.edu/madison/gpos225-madison2/the_bi ll_of_rights.htm Carna