Devil's advocate for your devil's advocate: At the least, our use and interpretation of the Constitution has explicitly discounted individual rights in favor o

Devil's advocate for your devil's advocate: At the least, our use and interpretation of the Constitution has explicitly discounted individual rights in favor of the collective state since approximately Lincoln. Against 150 years of tradition, what the Founders intended (up to and including the arming of the populace as a deterrent against tyranny) is largely irrelevant.