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I: Introduction | Type your Research here!! |
What is the importance of the Bill of Rights to American government? | The Bill of Rights makes the individual citizen the most important beneficiaryof the form of government established in the United States. |
II: Basic Concepts | |
What is the Bill of Rights basically about? | The Bill of Rights refers to the first 10 amendments to the USConstitution. |
Why is there a Bill of Rights? | The Bill of Rights established the fundamental treatment of persons living in the United States, and expressly prohibited the government fromusurping or taking away those rights. |
What were the founding fathers “afraid” of when they made the Bill of Rights? | The founding fathers were very afraid of a central government. |
III: History ||
Who is primarily responsible for the Bill of Rights? (explain involvement) | After the states declared independence in 1776, the states developed their own state constitutions. Many of themincluded a bill of rights. Eleven years later, during the U.S. Constitution, they excluded a bill of rights at the national level. The U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1788 with a number of states askingfor a bill of rights to be added. |
Who were the main “players” in the formation of the Bill of Rights? | Because Madison was the lead effort on the submission, he often gets the credit, though itwas really due to the pressure of the states. Therefore the various states were actually responsible for the bill of rights being added to the U.S. Constitution. |
When, where and how was the Billof Rights drafted and ratified? | Initially James Madison rejected those calls, but later helped aggregate the various states' inputs in 1789 and the states ratified the amendments in 1791. |
Whatother documents/ events influenced the drafting of the Bill of Rights? | Virginia Charters: rights of Englishmen guaranteed to colonists (influenced Constitution: created group assembly to make laws-...