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The Bill of Rights does NOT spell out your rights for you. Your rights include EVERYTHING that the Constitution does not explicitly give to the state. The Bill of Rights is just an example listing of rights that the founders felt were most important for a free society.

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Yes, but that doesn't stop the government from taking away rights (See: Plessy v. Ferguson/Brown v. Board of Education, Loving v. Virginia [was needed to stop abridgment of rights], DADT and DOMA, for example.)

Just because it was always supposed to work that way, doesn't mean it actually does work that way. In practice there's approximately nothing that can't be eventually related back to interstate commerce.

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