With a new job, dealing just with the basics, not the years of written responses and case law, Justice Brown Jackson took a Word version of the entire Constitution and looked for the word "people."
"We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
Hmm, the people seem to be in there somewhere. There are rules about militias and also unlawful searches and seizures, but it really is not much. Somewhere in the amendments, mostly after the Civil War, the people made brief appearances.
She did know it was a rather old documents, but it was still a shock. Most of the rights go to the states, not the people.
