The Bill of Rights (Ten Amendments) were adopted because the states were promised a Bill of Rights. This was during the Ratification (approval) of the Constitution. Anti-federalists did not support the Constitution and did not Ratify it. Federalists ratified it because of their own points of view. they believed a Constitution was a good sense of power, while Anti-federalists wanted a Bill of Rights, belived that the Constitution would give the Central government too much power in the expense of the state governments. Congress did not want to destroy harmony among the states because they had promised the Anti-federalists a bill of rights. The Bill of rights was added to the Constitution in 1791 in Deleware.
Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights
For equal rights.
We had rights.
the Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments, and they were added to the Constitution almost simultaneously in 1791.
Bill of Rights
Bill of Rights
Added protections for individual rights.
They added the bill of rights to make sure the rights of citizens would be safe.
Many amendments have been added since the bill of rights and they protect many different rights and privileges.
A Bill of Rights for US citizens. The Federalists argued that the Constitution did not contain language that took away any rights; they only enumerated powers of the government. They successfully lobbied to have the Bill of Rights added as separate amendments, ratified separately after the Constitution itself had been approved.
the bill of rights is a document made to protect the rights of people of the U.S.A