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As most here are aware, I am a cynical and atheistic man who has spent decades observing the human condition, looking for the worst while vainly hoping for the best. I submit that I have wasted time and effort; I am now resigned that the situation is hopeless. That said, on an old thumb drive I came across a directory containing terse "polemical essays" that I wrote years back. In them, I contend that the Bill of Rights were and are contrivances at the very best, and at the very worst - are contemptible lies created for the credulous.
It is a fact that James Madison created the Bill of Rights in an effort to facilitate ratification of the Constitution from states that did not fully support the Constitution as written. Therefore, an observation that they were written for that very purpose supports the argument that they were created as little more than rhetorical lip service to secure passage of the Constitution.
Perhaps I am too cynical, but that is my contention, or thesis.
Using historical examples, I then contrasted the text of each Amendment against historical Federal, and State, governmental violations against each Amendment; that was my antithesis.
Deducing a synthesis, I concluded that our supposed unalienable, god given rights are mere subjective constructs. I submit that our "rights" are little more than clever contrivances, or quite simply, lies, and that man actually has no rights at all in the truest sense of the word. Supporting that conclusion is the fact that Madison, even with the best of intentions, was employing rhetorical sophistry to achieve a goal - adoption of the Constitution.
I started with the First, and made it to the Sixth before I stopped, with notes up to the Tenth. I plan to finish and put up the series after some revision and edits, as some of the language used is not suitable for the purpose I have for American Resister. I do not wish to become tedious in this introduction, so I will reveal other points and contentions in the essays.
Your thoughts on the subject and its presentation would be appreciated; thank you.
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