Why were the federal government’s powers listed in the constitution?
Katie is incorrect. The Bill of Rights was added after the Constitution was written at the insistence of the Anti-Federalists who thought that if the federal government was not explicitly prohibited from infringing on individual rights, it would assume authority over them at any time it saw fit. The Federalists objected to its inclusion, not on the basis that the federal government should be the sole determining authority as to the scope of its authority, but rather that the federal government had no powers that were not explicitly delegated and that people like Katie would assume that the first 8 amendments were the only limits to federal power and that the 9th and 10th amendments were completely meaningless. In fact, the Constitution embodies the principles of limited government as supported by Natural Law. Under Natural Law, humans have a right to life, liberty, and property. Life – because it is the basis on which human kind exists and is the source of individual talents. Liberty t
