Myth: The government gives us our rights through the Bill of Rights and it can do anything it wants to so long as it does not conflict with these rights.
Truth: The Constitution, in the preamble and 10th Amendment, states that all government in America receives its authority from the American people and provides that: “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.”
The federal government, especially since the 1930s, has increasingly taken over powers not Constitutionally granted to it as the states have given up their rights in exchange for federal handouts.
