Sure wished you would stop with this lame Bill or Rights. It stole the first 7 articles from the Constitution of the United States. The Bill of Rights was written in 1791 while the Constitution was written in 1789. The Bill of Rights was never ratified while the Constitution was. In fact, it was ratified as late as 1959 when Hawaii became a state. The Bill of rights is worth exactly the cost of the parchment and ink it was printed on.
I think you misunderstand.
When the Constitution was written is not relevant, and only when it was ratified is relevant.
And no states were willing to ratify the Constitution as it was.
The Bill of Rights were corrections insisted upon by liberals, progressives, and leftists, before they would join the Union and ratify the Constitution.
The Bill of Rights were written by the wealthy, business oriented federalist, but only because the average people in the states were worried that the federalist would make the country into a fascist state for the wealthy.
The Bill of Rights are concessions to prevent federal corruption and control by the wealthy.
The Constitution was never ratified without the Bill of Rights, and the Bill of Rights is part of the Constitution.
All the amendments are integral parts of the Constitution.
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The
United States Bill of Rights comprises the first ten
amendments to the
United States Constitution. Proposed following the often bitter 1787–88 debate over the
ratification of the Constitution, and written to address the objections raised by
Anti-Federalists, the Bill of Rights amendments add to the Constitution specific guarantees of personal freedoms and
rights, clear limitations on the government's power in judicial and other proceedings, and explicit declarations that all powers not specifically granted to the
U.S. Congress by the Constitution are reserved for the
states or the
people. The concepts
codified in these amendments are built upon those found in earlier documents, especially the
Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776), as well as the
English Bill of Rights (1689) and the
Magna Carta (1215).
[1]
Due largely to the efforts of Representative
James Madison, who studied the deficiencies of the constitution pointed out by anti-federalists and then crafted a series of corrective proposals, Congress approved twelve articles of amendment on September 25, 1789, and submitted them to the states for ratification. Contrary to Madison's proposal that the proposed amendments be incorporated into the main body of the Constitution (at the relevant articles and sections of the document), they were proposed as supplemental additions (codicils) to it.
[2] Articles Three through Twelve were ratified as additions to the Constitution on December 15, 1791, and became Amendments One through Ten of the Constitution. Article Two became part of the Constitution on May 5, 1992, as the
Twenty-seventh Amendment.
Article One is still pending before the states.
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United States Bill of Rights - Wikipedia
If you want to keep it simple, just remember Jefferson was the good guy and Madison the bad guy.
The Bill of Rights was insisted upon by Jefferson and Madison gave in only because there would be no country otherwise.
It all depends on your point of view on whom was the good guy and who was the bad guy. I still think the 1791 bill or rights was just another way to keep one side busy while the other side got things done. This is why the Bill of rights was never Ratified but the Constitution was. Back in those days, they understood that the Constitution was a living document. Something we have forgotten in today's world.
You still have this wrong.
Not a single state was willing to ratify the Constitution as it was written.
It was only ratified AFTER the Bill of Rights was included into it as as amendments.
So it is wrong to say the Constitution was ratified without the Bill of Rights.
No one was willing to do that.
Essentially is was the Bill of Rights that finally caused states to ratify.
In 1788 and 89, 11 states ratified the Constitution as written. The common comment was "Ratify now, amend later". Actually, the last state ratified it in 1790 after some gentlemens agreements on amending some of it that came to pass in 1790. This was one full year before the Bill of Rights was accepted. The Bill of rights mirrored word for word the first 10 amendments of the Constitution of the United States. While the Constitution has function, the only function of the Bill of rights was a feel good for a select few. You keep trying to give the American Bill of Rights the same weight as the English Bill of Rights or the Magna Carta which are free standing documents. The American Bill of Rights is just echoing what was already amended and ratified in the US Constitution as of 1790. But if it makes you feel good, it made a handful of others feel good in 1791 as well.
That is not what I read.
I read that while some states did ratify the Constitution as early as February of 1888, the Bill of Rights had been appended as Amendments in September of 1889.
And many states, if not most, would never have agreed to join the federal government under the Constitution, without the Bill of Rights.
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By 1786, defects in the post-Revolutionary War
Articles of Confederation were apparent, such as the lack of central authority over foreign and domestic commerce. Congress endorsed a plan to draft a new constitution, and on May 25, 1787, the Constitutional Convention convened at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. On September 17, 1787, after three months of debate moderated by convention president
George Washington, the new U.S. constitution, which created a strong federal government with an intricate system of checks and balances, was signed by 38 of the 41 delegates present at the conclusion of the convention. As dictated by Article VII, the document would not become binding until it was ratified by nine of the 13 states.
Beginning on December 7, five states—
Delaware,
Pennsylvania,
New Jersey,
Georgia, and Connecticut—ratified it in quick succession. However, other states, especially
Massachusetts, opposed the document, as it failed to reserve undelegated powers to the states and lacked constitutional protection of basic political rights, such as freedom of speech, religion, and the press. In February 1788, a compromise was reached under which Massachusetts and other states would agree to ratify the document with the assurance that amendments would be immediately proposed. The Constitution was thus narrowly ratified in Massachusetts, followed by
Maryland and
South Carolina. On June 21, 1788, New Hampshire became the ninth state to ratify the document, and it was subsequently agreed that government under the U.S. Constitution would begin on March 4, 1789. In June,
Virginia ratified the Constitution, followed by
New York in July.
North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
Rhode Island, which opposed federal control of currency and was critical of compromise on the issue of slavery, resisted ratifying the Constitution until the U.S. government threatened to sever commercial relations with the state. On May 29, 1790, Rhode Island voted by two votes to ratify the document, and the last of the original 13 colonies joined the United States. Today the U.S. Constitution is the oldest written constitution in operation in the world.
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https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-constitution-ratified
Contrary to your belief the Bill of Rights is superfluous, my belief is the opposite, that it should have gone further, and also abolished slavery for more protection of individual rights.
While I can see how more federal power was helpful in the case of abusive southern states, that does not make up for the fact the federal government is by far much more abusive.
For example, the federal War on Drugs imprisoning millions, and the invasion of Iraq murdering half a million innocents.
In general, states are better at reflecting the values and rights of individuals.
