they thought a bill of enumerated rights could be dangerous. They worried that if they specified a few rights, some fools in the future would conclude that their list of rights were the only rights people had or should have. They worried that the federal government would grow to take power over everything but the few special carve-outs they bothered to enumerate. They had a good point. If you open a restaurant and put up a sign saying “No shirt, no shoes, no service,” best believe that somebody is going to show up with no pants. Some people take a list of rules as a challenge. Some jokers just
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