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The Bill of Rights limited the governments intrusion onto the PRE-EXISTING rights listed in the bill. As noted in the preamble to the constitution, some rights of man are self evident, and pre-existed any government formation. Some members of the constitutional committee wanted to ensure that these rights remained sacrosanct, and held out for the compromise that led to the writing of the Bill of Rights.

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