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>Is it equally ludicrous to assume the first 10 are SOOOOO much more important than the others that they were set aside and even given a special name?
Yes. They were never "set aside." They were colloquially named "The Bill of Rights" because they were all passed together and had a common purpose: to enumerate rights of the people that are, under no circumstances to be violated or misconstrued. There is no legal difference between the first ten and the rest, the first ones have a collective name because they share a common history and purpose, just as the 13th-15th are known as the "Reconstruction Amendments."
Can you cite court precedent that supports your idea that the first ten are in order of importance? The 9th and 10th are arguably the most important ones, I'm curious as to why they would be stuck at "the end" behind things like prohibition of troop quartering and the right to civil juries.
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