It&#x27;s incredible how far we&#x27;ve come from the original intent of the Constitution. The reason the Bill of Rights isn&#x27;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&#x27;s lawyer claims the Bill of Rights was supposed to make the government&#x27;s job &quot;more difficult,&quot; he is missing a larger point: <i>almost all</i> of what the federal government does today is not it&#x27;s job at all! Nothing in the Constitution grants the federal government power to do most of its current functions.