I don't have any problem with having amendments protecting our rights, though I my opinion they are meant to be moral declarations rather than defining the limi

I don't have any problem with having amendments protecting our rights, though I my opinion they are meant to be moral declarations rather than defining the limit of our rights. It's similar for limiting government. Our original designin the US was that the government only has the powers expli itly given to it by the people. We can have laws limiting the government, but again those are really just moral stances because the government should default to having no power. We lost this somewhere along the way, slipping to a point where it's commonplace for the government to claim to have authority we never gave it while we look for laws that grant us our freedoms rather than fight against laws that limit them.