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by th0waway
3851 days ago
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The Ten Amendments are not there to give power to the people, there are there to emphasize powers that the government DOES NOT HAVE. The thought was (and a very good one), that if something was not explicitly forbidden the government would find a way to wrangle definitions so it was included (ACA as a 'tax', anyone?). ANY powers not mentioned explicitly in the Constitution are supposed to be reserved for the people. |
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Of course, but that only applies if the government is still good.
Should a situation arise where the government decides to become evil, then the government will not give a f*ck about the people's reserved rights.
At that point, it will become hard to fight the government, if the people have no guns and especially hard if the people no standing well-regulated militia groups of men to enforce and defend the reserved rights of the people.
This is why the founding fathers want to guarantee the peoples the right to the standing of well-regulated militias groups. Because if the peoples does not have well-regulated militia groups to defend them, then the government can just decide to become corrupt, and there will be nothing that the people can do. By then, it'll be too late to start recruiting, training, and buying guns and ammo.
However, if the people have well-regulated militia groups standing by, then the government will have to fight a bloody war against the people's well-regulated militia groups first before the government can become a full fledged dictatorship.