We all use short hand terms to describe complex ideas or things.  One such term is Constitutional Rights frequently used by Americans to refer to the Bill of Rights or the first Ten Amendments to the Constitution of the United States.  Short hand terms are handy in communications, but they can mislead in thinking.  The primary role of the US Constitution is to define the Enumerated Powers of the national government and how that government is to function.  All rights, except those specifically yielded in the Constitution, are retained by the People.  So, it is misleading to believe that the Constitution grants rights to the People.  In fact, the Constitution is a creation of the People and, as such, cannot grant to the People that which they do not already possess.

     The pamphlet The Constitutional Rights of the People of America contains a discussion of the Constitution in our system of government.  It was written in 1924 to address the usurpation of liberty created by the Prohibition Amendment to the Constitution.  The author (an anonymous American Citizen) wrote this to expose the threat to liberty created by the misuse of the Amendment Process by the Federal and State Legislatures.  Although Prohibition has been repealed, the same dangerous attitudes about the Constitution and the powers granted exist today.  For that reason, this short pamphlet is worth reading.  Because you may wish to create a printed copy of this pamphlet for distribution, a second copy may be found here in two parts (front side, back side).  These parts allow the document to be printed front and back (or copied from one sided paper to two sided) and then stapled in the middle of the pages to create a small booklet.