 to say that rights were protected when there's no power to violate them would somehow suggest the government had more power or that people had fewer rights than they already did. You know, Hamilton also said, and by the way, we do have a Bill of Rights. It's just kind of spread throughout the Constitution. And he cited, for example, in Article 3, Section 2, the fact that in a criminal trial you have to have a jury. He cited Article 1, Section 9, and said there's a guarantee of habeas corpus