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Remember, the Bill of Rights were tagged on after the Constitution. The Constitution establishes what powers the Government could and couldn't have, purely in i
by txru 7y ago
Remember, the Bill of Rights were tagged on after the Constitution. The Constitution establishes what powers the Government could and couldn't have, purely in its relationship with the constituent states. The Bill of Rights filter out what it doesn't. And in its vagueness, the Constitution claimed quite a lot.
The ability, power, and right to investigate crimes is certainly reserved to both the states and the Fed. Government in the Constitution.
- zaroth 7y agoThe ability to not be forced to participation in one’s own prosecution is one of those rights the Constitution guarantees. The fact that modern life typically entails recording and documenting almost every single thing you do during the day, and yet law enforcement complains about “going dark”? Utter nonsense. People have never been more widely tracked, or more widely accountable. The absolute last thing we have is a privacy epidemic. The government has the right to investigate crimes. They do not have a specific right for defendants to keep records of what they did wrong or to be provided that evidence, outside the context of business regulations which require specific paperwork be maintained. And by the way, the Constitution specifically enumerates what powers the Federal government has. All Else is reserved to the States, or to the People. Which is why we weren’t supposed to need a Bill of Rights in the first place. The Constitution doesn’t enumerate Speech or Assembly as something the government can control, therefore it is not. However the Framers didn’t all agree we shouldn’t go and list a bunch of things just in case, except that it might make people think if it’s not listed then maybe it’s not a Right?