Richard Henry Lee, former President of the united States in Congress assembled, using the penname “The Federal Farmer,” publishes an anti-federalist essay, arguing in paragraph one that it is easier to list the limited powers of the federal government than to list the unlimited rights of WE THE PEOPLE:

       [I]n forming a federal constitution … which is only to manage a few great national concerns, we often find it easier to enumerate particularly the powers to be delegated to the federal head, than to enumerate particularly the individual rights to be reserved; and the principle will operate in its full force, when we carefully adhere to it.  When we particularly enumerate the powers given, we ought either carefully to enumerate the rights reserved, or be totally silent about them. … Men, in some countries do not remain free, merely because they are entitled to natural and unalienable rights; men in all countries are entitled to them, not because their ancestors once got together and enumerated them on paper, but because, by repeated negociations [sic] and declarations, all parties are brought to realize them, and of course to believe them to be sacred.

       [restored 10/4/2021]