it was in World War 2
Majorities can easily trample the rights of minorities and when minorities' rights are trampled, the very freedoms which the framers fought for would be forfeit.
totalitarian
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.
It was made to protect the rights of the individual from the government.
The US Constitution and its Amendments
To place limits on the power of the Federal government. If you read them carefully, they say what the government CANNOT do.
The Constitution limits the power of government and protects the rights of the people.
This is because the Bill of Rights limits the power of federal government in the U.S.
This is because the Bill of Rights limits the power of federal government in the U.S.
Constitutional law
Constitutional Law
Constitutional Law
It defines limits on the power of government.
It places limits of the power of the Federal government. Read it closely- it tells the things that government CANNOT do.
the Bill of Rights limits the power of the federal and state government by making rules so that each power has equal power and we have powers that we have for example(freedom of speech, freedom of press, freedom of taxation)
A limitation of rights is exactly what it sounds like. It is when anyone or anything (most likely a government or power) removes or limits rights that people previously had.
It was unnecessary because under the constitution , the people and the government were the same so the constitution didn't give the power to the government .