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∙ 12y agoTo outline the rights of individuals. When the constitution was written the individual colonies were asked to ratify it and so give up their independence and form the United States. Since a war for independence had just been fought, the colonies had concerns that the new federal government could become tyrannical and take away the freedoms they had fought so hard to win. The Bill of Rights was added to the constitution to make it more palatable and remove some of the fears about losing states rights. Even the states that were willing to ratify the constitution without the rights listed were happy to see them spelled out .
An answer lacking details: they had many long and arduous debates that lasted for months, culminating in the Constitution and its Bill of Rights. The Constitution took so long to ratify because many people feared a strong central government would make state governments obsolete, that there was no Bill of Rights when every state constitution had one and that the Constitution was too vague(Elastic Clause). People against the Constitution were Anti-Federalists. So there were 2 big compromises: the Great Compromise of 1787 and the 3/5 Compromise. A Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution later on during the debates.
Yes, it contains 103 articles and was made on November 3, 1946.
Rhode Island did not provide representation to assist in framing that document. They sat out the Constitutional Convention in protest insisting that a Bill of Rights and some form of protection for small states had to be included before they would be a party to the proposed Constitution. They got their way with a bi-cameral Legislature where the small states were equals in the upper house and assurances that a Bill of Rights was to be added to the Constitution. They ratified the US Constitution and joined the United States on 29 May 1790.
The Anti-Federalists did not like the U.S. Constitution in its original form because they thought it gave too much power to the Federal Government. They wanted the states to have more power.
The majority of state constitutions include some form of a bill of rights. Typically, they mirror the rights found in the Bill of Rights of the U.S. Constitution.
The plural form is Bill of Rights.The plural possessive form is bill of rights'.Example:All members are required be familiar with our bill of rights' content.
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 came in the ratification of the constitution and the constitution was needed to form a government after the revolution.
Many of the most important states would not ratify the United States Constitution until the Bill of Rights was written. They were not happy with the original form of the Constitution.
I am not sure if you are asking about the Canadian charter of rights. They form the first part of the constitution act in 1982. They replaced the Bill of Rights of 1960.
Civil liberties were added, in the form of the Bill of Rights.
To establish a government, write the bill of rights and the constitution. Vote on the constitution and form a country.
When the United States became an independent country, we wanted to be different from a Kingdom. The Articles of Confederation were created to serve the purpose of our current Constitution. However, the articles of confederation were extremely weak and did not provide strong government. The constitution was written to have a stronger government. A few years after the constitution was established, the Bill of Rights was added to the constitution in the form of the first ten amendments. The Bill of Rights protected rights of all people.
The Constitution
As amendments
a form of the Bill of Rights.