Sunday, January 16, 2011

Bill of Rights Purpose - Response of the Anti-Federalists

Federalists such as Alexander Hamilton and James Madison believed that a Bill of Rights was unnecessary because they didn't think that people were giving up these rights in the first place by accepting the Constitution. They also worried that if certain rights were spelled out in the Constitution as being protected, that it might imply that other rights that were not mentioned, were not protected.

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