~Basil

On December 15th each year, you’re likely to hear politicians and
pundits using beautiful prose to “celebrate” Bill of Rights Day.

At best, unfortunately, it’s just one day for most of them to grandstand even as they work to undermine the Constitution and your liberty the rest of the year.

For us, Bill of Rights Day is every single day of the year.

On June 8, 1789, James Madison addressed the House of Representatives and introduced a proposed Bill of Rights to the Constitution.

It has been objected also against a bill of rights, that, by

enumerating particular exceptions to the grant of power, it would disparage those rights which were not placed in that enumeration; and it might follow by implication, that those rights which were not singled out, were intended to be assigned into the hands of the General Government, and were consequently insecure. This is one of the most plausible arguments I have ever heard urged against the admission of a bill of rights into this system; but, I conceive, that it may be guarded against. I have attempted it, as gentlemen may see by turning to the last clause of the fourth resolution [the Ninth Amendment].

A record of the debates in the House of Representatives from June 8 to Sept, 24 related to the proposed amendments to the Constitution can be located in the Annals of Congress.*

The original joint resolution proposing the Bill of Rights is on

permanent display at the National Archives in Washington, D.C. And while most people are familiar with the preamble to the Constitution, the don’t realize that the Bill of Rights also has a preamble

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