Rational Nation USA

On The Lack Of A Bill Of Rights By "BRUTUS" When a building is to be erected which is intended to stand for ages, the foundation should be firmly laid. The Constitution proposed to your acceptance is designed, not for yourselves alone, but for generations yet unborn. The principles, therefore, upon which the social compact is founded, ought to have been clearly and precisely stated, and the most express and full declaration of rights to have been made. But on this subject there is almost an entire silence. If we may collect the sentiments of the people of America, from their own most solemn declarations, they hold this truth as self-evident, that all men are by nature free. No one man, therefore, or any class of men, have a right, by the law of nature, or of God, to assume or exercise authority over their fellows. The origin of society, then, is to be sought, not in any natural right which one man has to exercise authority over another, but in the united consent of tho...

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Federalist Papers versus Anti Federalist papers. Reasoned thought and opposing arguments on critical issues before the American people prior to ratification of our Constitution. Are they still germain today? The following excerpt from Anti Federalist #6 addresses the issue of abolition of states rights and alludes{at least in this writer's opinion} to the possibility of civil war. You my readership be the judge. This power, exercised without limitation, will introduce itself into every comer of the city, and country — It will wait upon the ladies at their toilett, and will not leave them in any of their domestic concerns; it will accompany them to the ball, the play, and the assembly; it will go with them when they visit, and will, on all occasions, sit beside them in their carriages, nor will it desert them even at church; it will enter the house of every gentleman, watch over his cellar, wait upon his cook in the kitchen, follow the s...