Both the U.S. Constitution and the Articles of Confederation are in effect today, jointly establishing the present federal union.  That results in a union, and various states, that are unavoidably in breach of contract.

According to James Madison, the accumulation of legislative, executive, and judicial powers in the same hands can justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.  In this essay, your suspicions are confirmed.

This essay examines the U.S. Bill of Rights on two levels.  On the surface, it's an examination of language, construction, and effect.  On that level, it challenges much of the myth and misinformation generally associated with the U.S. Bill of Rights.  More fundamentally, the essay offers a beginning into the arcane art of understanding government and recognizing it for what it really is.  Such understanding eventually suggests the necessity of an alternative.

These two related items are available in The Sovereign's Library.

Bill of Rights Lite 40 K PDF File

Bill of Non-Rights 28 K PDF File

The Seventeenth Amendment was ratified in violation of Article 5 of the U.S. Constitution.  Since then, most acts of the U.S. government have been without constitutional validity.

With one possible exception, rights aren't unalienable.  The idea that they are is political anesthesia.  This mistaken belief has fostered an incautious attitude toward our rights and has resulted in their entire loss, except maybe for the possible exception.