Its crazy how at the time, people argued that since there was no power given in the constitution to do something, that it would never happen (i.e. writing down that speech was protected was unnecessary since there was no power to reulate it). Its interesting how the system has figured out the "loopholes" in the document and used it to essentially control everything that wasn't expressly forbidden (and even have power over those things to some degree -- e.g. weapons, speech, religion).

I guess it turned out Hamilton was partially right, since it has eventually been interpreted as an implicit right of the government to regulate everything not explicitly given as a right. But at the same time, I can imagine without the "protection" ammendments, we'd probably still have even more rules and regulations (I doubt implicit mention of powers was the instigating factor).