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Why is the Bill of Rights called the Bill of Rights?

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Not all rights of a citizen aer defined, for example. you have the right to breath and open and shut your own eyes...you do NOT have a right to become a US Citizen without the government's definition or obligation to "give" that person that right.

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It explains all the rights a citizen of the US is supposed to have.

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