Actually, the original draft of the Constitution had no Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights is a collection of ten amendments, or "changes." These changes were made in order to clarify the position of the document concerning certain issues.
add the bill of rights
add the Bill of Rights
The framers of the US Constitution had their differences, but they also had some things they agreed on. Some of these were the need to allow the people to have a voice in how they were governed and to include a series of checks and balances in the system of government.
A Bill of Rights.
Bill of Rights
They were the Anti-Federalists
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.
Yes, they added the Bill of rights
They Borrowed the English Bill of Rights
== == Yes Chalers Cotesworth Pinckney was in favor of the Bill of Rights. So was alot of other framers.
They were afraid that the majority would ride roughshod over the minority; so they decided that some rights, even though they were inalienable natural rights, needed to be explicitly guaranteed.
Bill of Rights