The Constitution of the United States was written on four sheets of parchment. If you count the Preamble and all 27 Amendments (remember there were originally only ten), it comes out to 20 typed pages. If you don’t count the signatures and amendments, you’ll have a document of 11 typed pages. No single Amendment is a full page. Many are only a single sentence in length. The First Amendment covers a multitude of freedoms: religion, press, assembly, speech, and the right to petition the government. It does it with only 45 words. Those original four sheets, about 4500 words, were good enough to serve as a document to govern a nation.

http://godfatherpolitics.com/1402/four-sheets-of-parchment-vs-2032-pages-of-government-control/

To which 4-sheets-of-parchment-papered Constitution are your referring?

The one that, at its inception, only afforded its rights to white, land-owning males

or

the one that, at its inception, was intended to be a living, breathing document and so it allowed for the addition of Amendments, the likes of which - for instance - have allowed women, blacks, and apartment-dwelling males to have access to its rights, too?

I have hopes that the 2032 pages will be defunded by the next congress.

But originally there were only those four pieces of parchment, so elegantly poised to become a larger nightmare than they current are. Words driven by the Federalist that wanted a powerful federal government. It was only by the grace of the likes of Patrick Henry and the anti-federalist that saved the day somewhat by insisting that a bill of rights be included to further outline the restrictions on the government. And even then look where we are.

But those 2032 pages mean absolutely nothing. The Odumbo administration claimed authority under the Commerce Clause to pass such legislation, those mystical beings in the black robes said not really. Then there was the Necessary and Proper clause and the mystical being again said no way. But those mystical beings not wanting to compromise their co-conspiratorial status deemed that Congress did possess the power to tax (not really but that is another story). Of course it was not defined as to where and how this mysterious power came about but that is another challenge that will never materialize.

But the real crux of the matter are the people. Will they just roll over and play dead as usual? In all probability absolutely. Any questions at just how we have arrived at this point in history?

They are one and the same actually except for those refusing to understand history and have some sort of axe to grind.

But in reality the second has nothing to do with rights, but based on privileges for those that have surrendered their rights.