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Questions about the Bill of Rights Chase Y. Dylan P.

1. What is the Bill of Rights?

The Bill of Rights is the ten amendments of the United States constitution. They play a very special role in the constitution because they set out specific rights of American citizens in order to ensure that those rights are not broken.

2. Why do they have a Bill of Rights?

The Bill of Rights is attached to the Constitution because many of the 13 states had a hard time ratifying the Constitution without a Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights also protects individual rights.

3. What was the purpose of the Bill of Rights? The purpose of the Bill of Rights was to set limits on what the government can and cannot do in regard of personal liberties.

4. Who wrote the Bill of Rights? At the Virginia ratifying convention, James Madison realized that the absence of a Bill of Rights was undermining support for the constitution. During the time of the Virginia ratifying convention Thomas Jefferson was writing James Madison from Paris to urge him to accept the need for clearly defining the rights of American citizens. Later on James Madison wrote the Bill of Rights.

5. When was the Bill of Rights ratified? The Bill of Rights was ratified on December 15th 1791.

6. Why did the Constitution of 1787 have very few individual rights guarantees?

The Constitution of 1787 did not contain many individual rights because the framers were more focused on making an effective federal government.

7. Why did the people of the states want a Bill of Rights so badly?

The people of the states wanted a Bill of rights so bad because it protected individual rights.

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