Snowden lawyer: Bill of Rights was meant to make government’s job more difficult
It's incredible how far we've come from the original intent of the Constitution. The reason the Bill of Rights isn't baked in is because the Constitution enumerated a small set of limited powers to the federal government, with the assumption (articulated in the Tenth Amendment) that all other powers were reserved for the states and for the people.<p>Thankfully the states demanded the Bill of Rights at ratification. Without it, we would have lost all of the rights listed by now, due to the rampant power-grabs of the federal government since the founding.<p>Although Snowden's lawyer claims the Bill of Rights was supposed to make the government's job "more difficult," he is missing a larger point: <i>almost all</i> of what the federal government does today is not it's job at all! Nothing in the Constitution grants the federal government power to do most of its current functions.