Why were the Bill of Rights created?

Answer 1

During the time of the creation of the constitution, there were the Federalists who supported it as it had been written, and who thought there was no need for an official Bill of Rights because the rights were "implied." Federalists were generally wealthier and supported a strong, centralized government.

Many of the Anti-Federalists were back country farmers who favored states rights. These people feared for a government-controlled nation because they had just fought a revolution to get rid of such restrictions. They wanted to see their rights written down. In addition to farmers, there were some famous patriots like George Mason and Thomas Jefferson who believed there needed to be a Bill of Rights. And there was a large group of Americans who remembered the John Peter Zenger case, which took place in 1735: Zenger was a newspaper publisher in the New York colony who was imprisoned and nearly sentenced to death just for questioning the policies of the royal governor. The Zenger case reinforced the need to guarantee that speech would not be punished and that there would be freedom of the press.

Thus, the various groups who combined to form the Anti-Federalists refused to support and ratify the constitution until there was a Bill of Rights. This put the Federalists in a difficult position: needing support from the Anti-Federalists in order to ratify the constitution, they agreed to a compromise, and the Bill of Rights was added.

Answer 2

The reason for the American Revolutionary War was the belief that the British monarchy which ruled the American colonies was an oppressive and tyrannical government. Great sacrifices were made to obtain independence from that government. The Founding Fathers were very concerned about the possibility that the new government that they were creating would turn out to be another oppressive and tyrannical government, in which case all of their sacrifice would have been for nothing, and they might as well have remained subjects of the British crown. Therefore they placed safeguards in the constitution, to prevent that from happening, the most important of which is the Bill of Rights.

Answer 3

The Bill of Rights were created to keep citizens from doing bad things and to keep our state a good and fair one

Answer 4

the Bill of Rights was created to protect the citizens unalienable rights. (the unalienable rights are life,liberty and the pursuit of happiness.)

Answer 5

The intention of the bill of rights is to protect the public from tyranny.