in the character of militia, you may be dragged from your families and homes to any part of the continent, and for any length of time

IF YOU WANT ANOTHER example of the foresight of the antifederalists,  here is another passage from Paul Finkelmann's review of The Complete Antifederalist that should sound familiar to anyone following the news since January 21st. 

"Centinel" feared not only a standing army but the abuse of local militias by the national government.  He also understood, far better than the Federalists, that the Constitution would allow a tyranny of the majority to persecute Quakers and other conscientious objectors. "Centinel" believed the Constitution would "subject" American citizens

"to the most arbitrary military discipline, [and] even death may be inflicted on the disobedient; in the character of militia, you may be dragged from your families and homes to any part of the continent, and for any length of time. . . and as militia, you may be made then unwilling instruments of oppression, under the direction of government; there is no exemption upon account of conscientious scruples of bearing arms .... "

Of course, all through our history such has been the case for Black People, certainly for Native Americans but also many other groups for whom which the Constitution never was intended to work by the framers of it.   Now, under Republican-fascism and the Roberts Court many white citizens of the United States are feeling themselves to be under that threat WITHOUT ANYONE MUCH STOPPING THEM, LEAST OF ALL THE SUPREME COURT.   And that's WITH THE BILL OF RIGHTS that the First Congress was forced to pass due to the promises made by James Madison to get Virginia to approve of the thing.   But that will get me started on the many defects in the Bill of Rights, not least of which is the completely defective and now Supreme Court worsened Second Amendment which makes anyone with the means of assembling an arsenal able to do what even the huge lynch mobs of the past couldn't do, kill large numbers of People which happens with such frequency that mass gun murder has become routine in the country under the Bill of Rights.  

Anyone who believes or says that all we need to do is to go back to the regular order of things in the past is an idiot of the kind who does the same thing over and over again and expects there to be a different result.  Those trained as lawyers regularly either are or pretend to be such idiots, my greatest nightmares over Democrats getting the kind of chance Obama and Biden got to right things will listen to the lawyers and, like they did, blow that chance. 

The Constitution isn't the solution, it is the problem,  if not in how  it was written then it certainly is now in how the Supreme Court rewrites it to suit itself according to which elite lawyers sits on it at any time.   And as the many mistakes of the Warren Court prove, mistakes that were then weaponized by the Rehnquist and Roberts Courts to opposite ends,  you can't depend on the maybe one brief period when "liberals" dominated it making everything better.   It has to be cut down to the size of a reasonably less dangerous court in a modern democracy.    It has to be correctable by the Congress and, through them the only basis of any legitimate government, the true, adequately informed and equally accessed voting of The People.