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by the Bill of Rights.
by the Bill of Rights.
The bill of rights is intended to protect individual freedoms and their rights.
The Bill of Rights
England doesn't have a Bill of Rights. It has a number of common law decisions which preserve those rights.
They believed that the rights that are now guaranteed through the Bill of Rights needed to be stated in some kind of Bill of Rights. Our basic rights should be written in a sort of Bill of Rights to ensure that we were guaranteed those rights.
That there are other rights besides those listed in the Bill of Rights
The purpose of these bills is to protect those rights against infringement by the government.
That there are other rights besides those listed in the Bill of Rights
Five states ratified conditionally, with amendments. James Madison rewrote those amendments into the Bill of Rights.
The federalists did not want a Bill of Rights because they felt that by writing down the powers of the people, those powers would be limited.
The 9th amendment states that all rights not listed in the Bill of Rights go to the states to decide.