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Originally Posted by MTI
No one, including the framers, ever called it the Bill of "Absolute" Rights.
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Exactly!
Lets get rid of 2, then 1, then 4,5,6,7 then 3, then 8 and 9. 10 can stay.
Once we get rid of the 9 amendments we can get rid of 13, 14, 15, 24, and 25
In fact there is history on your side
The idea of adding a bill of rights to the Constitution was originally controversial.
Alexander Hamilton, in
Federalist No. 84, argued against a "Bill of Rights," asserting that ratification of the Constitution did not mean the American people were surrendering their rights, and therefore that protections were unnecessary: "Here, in strictness, the people surrender nothing, and as they retain every thing, they have no need of particular reservations."
Once we do that, we can monkey with the main articles
Let's get rid of Article 3 too...