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Actually, the original draft of the Constitution had no Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights is a collection of ten amendments, or "changes." These changes were made in order to clarify the position of the document concerning certain issues.
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∙ 14y ago
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∙ 11y agoThe Framers did not add a Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights was added by Congress to protect individual rights.
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∙ 13y agoSince the Constitution already limited the powers of government, many of the founders felt that the people's rights were already protected enough and that a Bill of Rights was unnecessary.
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What did the framers need to do before some of the states would agree to ratify the Constitution?
add the bill of rights
What did the framers need to before some of the states would agree to ratify the constitution?
add the Bill of Rights
What did the framers agree should be part of the constitution?
The framers of the US Constitution had their differences, but they also had some things they agreed on. Some of these were the need to allow the people to have a voice in how they were governed and to include a series of checks and balances in the system of government.
What did the framers promise to add to the Constitution in order to convince people to ratify it?
A Bill of Rights.
What influenced the Framers in developing the constitution?
Bill of Rights
Why did the framers not include a bill of rights in the constitution?
Many of them simply didn't believe it was necessary. Because the original Constitution placed limits on the power of the government, many framers, such as James Madison, trusted that the people's rights were already sufficiently protected.
What were the framers who wanted a bill of rights called?
They were the Anti-Federalists
Did the framers of the constitution rewrite the constitution?
Yes, they added the Bill of rights
Why did the framers find it necessary to include in the bill of rights?
They were afraid that the majority would ride roughshod over the minority; so they decided that some rights, even though they were inalienable natural rights, needed to be explicitly guaranteed.
What ideas in the constitution did the framers adopt from England?
They Borrowed the English Bill of Rights
Who was in favor of the Bill of Rights?
== == Yes Chalers Cotesworth Pinckney was in favor of the Bill of Rights. So was alot of other framers.
How did the framers try to protect the rights of citizens of the constitution?
They added the Bill of Rights in order to guarantee the basic rights of all citizens.
