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The Bill of rights is part of the American constitution and not British, so I think you are confused.
Bill or rights guarantees.
They wanted stronger restraints on Federal power, because they were afraid the new government would overpower the will of the people like the parliament of Britain had done to them. They thought stronger states rights were important so the federal level of government would not obtain absolute power. The Answer you want is "A Bill of Rights"
Virginia
The English Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights
The Virginia Declaration of Rights was a model for the Bill of Rights.
Bill of Rights
English Bill of Rights
the there two different bill of rights
There is a clause written before the Bill of Rights which basically states in modern english, that the following rights are yours and cannot be taken away, but it does not necessarily mean these the only rights you have. This was done to insure that a) people would not confuse the Bill of Rights as a form of oppression and b) later amendments that guaranteed rights could be added to the Constitution.
The Bill of Rights.