If anyone reading this has ever wondered why the ultra left has continuously tried to promote their point that the U S Constitution with it's Bill of Rights is irrelevant today read the following:
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George Mason and the Bill of Rights

Washington Times, by Charles Hurt

Commonly referred to as the “forgotten founder,” George Mason IV had a fair amount of contempt for politics. Especially politicians. It was a dirty, grubby affair that attracted mostly dirty, grubby people. Mason was clairvoyant.

Mason served as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia and helped craft that document. But he ultimately refused to sign it because, among other flaws, it lacked a bill of rights.

"The American Citizen is the Republic itself, and the tribunal of his authority is set above the Throne of Kings.” To Mason, government was never a sure thing. Free people begrudgingly allowed it to exist in a most limited form to serve a severely limited purpose. And if that government got out of line, free people would simply dispatch it and start over again. Or do without. (Any doubt that he’d have huzzahed the gubmint shutdown last month?)

Looking around Washington today and trying to pick between the all-seeing, all-groping, insatiably power-hungry big government Democrats and the all-seeing, all-groping, insatiably power-hungry big government Republicans, scrapping it all and starting over is not such a bad idea.

After the Constitution was ratified, his continued calls for a bill of rights finally took hold. To this day, this list of rights is the only reason we have not been stripped of our guns. ***It is the only vestige of protection between us and the government spies. It blazed the trail to crush the intolerable institution of slavery — a result that Mason quite purposely knew and predicted would come from his demand of individual liberties.

As paltry and violated as our state of freedom seems today, it has been worse for various people at various other times during our history. Every time, it was the light cast far forward by George Mason that led us home.

And so it will again.

*** Bold added by ISS

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