When the Constitution was ratified, conflict began between Hamilton and Jefferson. Hamilton’s followers, the Federalist, were in favor of the new Constitution because it had a balance of power and created a central government. He believed running the country on a loose interpretation of the Constitution. In other words, whatever was not forbidden in the Constitution should be allowed in which he supported the national bank. He was more focused on expanding the economic growth of the countries to bring success and establish a strong federal government to create a great deal of tariffs on the people, which would help pay off the national debt the country was in because of war. Hamilton thought the future would prosper more if the commercial and industrial society grew. He promoted the growth of factories…
debates. People that supported the Constitution argued that many state constitutions already did the job of protecting citizens’ rights. Supporters of the Constitution believed that these rights already existed as natural rights, even though they were not listed. The anti-federalists disagreed and believed there should be a list of rights. They feared that the stronger national government would abuse individual rights. The anti-federalists basically wanted a list of individual…
The first eight amendments in the Bill of Rights were intended to protect Americans ' specific personal rights. The Founding Fathers recognized the importance of these rights and fought so that the people in the United States would have the independence that no other nation had known. These same men were well aware of the unavoidable sacrifices they were going to have to make. Listing every right that a person should possess was impossible to fit into ten amendments. Therefore, congress made the final two amendments in the Bill of Rights to be an all inclusive statute in an effort to prevent the United States government from discovering a loophole and gaining too much power. The Ninth and Tenth Amendments are the final two statutes in the Bill of Rights which outlines the limited control of the government and even more importantly the power of the people.…
The Bill of Rights was ratified on December 25 of 1791. Federalism wanted some kind of centralized government and the anti-federalists were willing of a centralized government only if a bill of rights were to be adopted which secured their rights and gave limits on government power. Alexander did not agree with the BOR because he believed that people were going to take advantage of those rights not included in the BOR. James Madison proposed 12 amendments but 2 were dismissed and 10 were ratified. After the Declarations of Independence was ratified congress decided to build a Constitution a factor that influenced that decision was shays rebellion which were the farmers who didn't want to pay there debt making and made riots. Congress believed they needed to strengthen the government therefore the Constitution was created as well as the Bill of Rights which was enacted to protect against giving the central gov too much power and limiting the power of the federal government of the U.S and protected the rights of all citizens. The final form of the constitution was…
The essay Federalist 84 was titled “Certain General and Miscellaneous Objections to the Constitution Considered and Answered”, introduced the concept of the United States without the formal Bill of Rights. It was, in Hamilton’s opinion, not necessary to be in the constitution and would try to restrict government powers that are not even granted. If the Bill of Rights was excluded from the constitution, I believe that…
When the Framers wrote “securing the blessings of liberty,” it was referring to the freedom to criticize the government or petition it when they disagreed with its policies, in other words it meant our government will make good decisions so that we have the good things about freedom and the future generations have freedom and right as well. Once the constitution was ratified the Bill of Rights were the ten amendments to the constitution that offered numerous limitations on the national government's ability to interfere with personal liberties, now there are 27 amendments.…
House of Representatives, made 19 amendments to add to the Constitution. On September 25, 1789, Congress adopted 12 of the amendments and then sent them to the states for ratification. Ten out of the twelve amendments were accepted and called the “Bill of Rights”. They were ratified and became a part of Constitution on December 10, 1791. The Bill of Rights provides basic protection as an American citizen. For James Madison helping writing the drafting of the Constitution he became the “Father of the Constitution”. To today, there have been hundreds of proposed amendments to the Constitution. However, only 17 amendments have been ratified in addition to the Bill of rights making only 27 amendments in…
The average citizen did not feel that they would get their fair level of representation and that the government would be out of touch with their needs. The Anti-Federalists were also worried that the original text of the Constitution did not contain a bill of rights. It was important to the people that they had a solid form of protection that covered basic liberties including freedom of speech and trial by jury. The Federalist needed the support of the Anti-Federalist and considered it a compromise by adding the bill of right if the antifederalist voted for the constitution. The bill of right was added in…
James Madison believed that the people were the source of authority for the state. The Bill of Rights was seen as somewhat of an attack on the government. It was simply to protect the individual rights and freedom of the people. The rights were freedom of speech, freedom of press, no established religion, no double jeopardy, and requirement of trial by jury. Kammen agrees that the Bill of Rights was the needed push for those who did not truly understand that the constitution was to protect the people of the state.…
One of the greatest fears of the Anti-Federalists was that the Constitution had no Bill of Rights. The Anti-Federalist believed that the Constitution needed to have something in place to prevent the government from encroaching on the people’s rights and liberties. They felt by having a Bill of Rights the power could remain with the states and the…
So after that he had been noticed, he had to go to the constitutional convention so not only he went he has been asked about what should the constitution have. So he had made some propositions for the constitution. During that time he wrote a paper on all of them in the “ Plan of the Union.” (Hamilton 1) This paper shows that the propositions that he had made when they asked. There are 12 things that not only include the right of the people but also the laws of the land. That would mean that all people has equal protection including the president, senate, and everyone else. As you can see that Hamilton really learned that freedmen should have full citizenship rights, that took two years to finally understand that you can live without people doing your…
This article is explaining the author Walter William’s opinion on why the Bill of Rights were written. He states that they were written because “Congress could not be trusted with our God-given rights.” The article also explained that the Amendments within the Bill of Rights were written because the “Government was the enemy of the people.” Even though the government was the “enemy” it was still needed to provided the State's protection.Others think that the Bill of Rights were “unnecessary and dangerous.” One of the individuals that felt it was unnecessary and dangerous was Alexander Hamilton, he felt that the government should have more power than the States.…
To the people of the United States a bill of Rights in a constitution was very important. Without the Bill of Rights in the Articles of Confederation this made the people very mad because their individual rights were not protected by their constitution. Some of the people's individual rights were the freedom of speech, press, or religion. Without the Bill of Rights they were not able to believe in other religions or publish something on a newspaper that was their opinion. This problem was excluded after shay’s rebellion when they were making the new Constitution as well.…
After creating the Articles of Confederation, the representatives of each state agreed to make a new, better form of government, the U.S. Constitution. When creating a constitution for our nations, certain citizens wanted to guarantee that there would be a Bill of Rights included in it. These people were called the antifederalist, and they wanted a Bill of Rights to assure that their individual rights would not be taken out of their possession.…
When the Constitution was written, it was not the intent of the authors to assure human rights to its citizenry, it was written in order to set up a federal government that would allow the United States to be a self-governing entity, and to put in place a system of government that would serve the citizens of the country in the way that they saw fit. After the ratification of the Constitution in 1787, “people soon began to notice that it did not list many of the personal liberties (individual rights) that they had come to believe were theirs.”(Cullop, 1999) At the behest of some states the first ten amendments were added to the Constitution that protected the personal rights of the citizens called the…