How can the government use the Bill of Rights more than it already is?

Amira: How can the government use the Bill of Rights more than it already is?
How can the government better incorporate the Bill of Rights in the rightful manner? Like, give some specific situations in todays’ society such as gay marriage, etc. I’m curious because I just read the Bill of Rights and I think our country/government can use it more, what do you think?

Answers and Views:

Answer by Uncle Pennybags
Absolutely!

The 10th Amendment states “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

Basically, unless the Constitution says the federal gov’t should be doing something, it shouldn’t be.

If you read the Constitution, you will see no authorization of power for the gov’t to provide Social Security, Medicare, education or Obama’s new health care plan. Those programs and many others should be scrapped as unconstitutional unless it is specifically defined that the federal gov’t should be doing that.

See Article 1, Section 8 for that list of powers the gov’t actually has.

The federal gov’t should also be silent on issues such as abortion or gay marriage, because the Constitution does not mention anything like those either. Those issues should be decided by the states and the people.

Firearms ownership should be much less restricted. After all it does say “….the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.”