This sounds like a question on a test. There are many answers,
one may be that they modeled them after the U. S. Constitution
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James Madison was the writer of the Bill of rights since the
bill of rights is just the name given to the first 10 amendments of
the U. S. Constitution and James Madison wrote the constitution.
James Madison
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The U. S. Constitution is supreme power of the land. Therefore,
it is supreme of the entire U. S. government.