The American People held all rights and powers in their hands prior to the creation of the constitutions of the states and the federal government. We Americans ceded some of our power to both our states and the Federal Government. The power granted was designed to allow the governments to function. However, the Supreme Court does not grant Americans rights we continue to have all the rights that we have not given away.

It is true that the Founders were more afraid of encrouchments by the central government than the states and believed that states would defend their citizens. The Civil War and the Civil War Amendments and the Civil Rights Movement shifted the balance between the Federal Government and the States. However, it did not change who is the sovereign in the United States. The people of the United States. Conservatives just do not get it. The Supreme Court did not give us a right to privacy, for example, we always possessed it.