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Its not a matter of what their legal status is. Its a matter of what drives our sense of whether some behavior is right or wrong. The Bill of Rights and later
by brandmeyer 8y ago
Its not a matter of what their legal status is. Its a matter of what drives our sense of whether some behavior is right or wrong.
The Bill of Rights and later amendments enshrines the ideal that power should have limitations. Just because this ideal was first applied to government doesn't mean that we must stop there.
- tptacek 8y agoI understand the point you're making, but the Bill of Rights is an odd document to use as your moral lodestar. It was designed for a particular purpose: to structure and constrain a new government. It isn't a manual on how people should conduct themselves, nor did its authors intend it as one. It leaves out things that manual would certainly include, and includes things it wouldn't.