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The tradition of incorporating bills of rights into constitutions:
- Dates back to the ancient regiments of Greece and Rome.
- Is derived from the English constitution, and most of our state constitutions had already adopted them before the United States Constitution was ratified.
- Began in America; they had their origins in the state constitutions before the United States Constitution was adopted.
- Began with the United States Constitution.
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During the American Founding period, James Madison argued that a bill of rights was unnecessary in the United States Constitution because:
- Congress did not have the power to violate individual rights, such as speech, religion, and the press, since it was confined by the enumerated powers in Article I, Section 8.
- The experience of the state constitutions had proven that bills of rights were no better than "parchment barriers" when overbearing majorities were intent on violating the rights of some minority.
- Given the temper of the country at the time, any bill of rights they could adopt would not go far enough in protecting individual rights, especially the rights of conscience.
- All of the above.
- None of the above: James Madison had always been a strong advocate of a bill of rights.
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Why did James Madison have trouble getting Congress to take up the issue of the bill of rights quickly?
- Congress was pre-occupied with the War of 1812.
- Congress felt that not enough of the States had demanded a bill of rights during their ratifying conventions.
- Congress felt that they should wait to propose a bill of rights until North Carolina and Rhode Island had ratified the Constitution as it was originally proposed.
- Congress felt there were more pressing concerns for its first session despite Madison's urgings that Congress was obligated to debate the amendments proposed by the various ratifying conventions.
- Congress felt a bill of rights was not necessary.
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The United States Bill of Rights:
- Was adopted by the American people at the same time they ratified the Constitution in 1788.
- Was proposed by the FIrst Congress as a package of Ten Amendments, exactly as we find them today, and then ratified by the states in 1791.
- Started out as a set of Twelve Amendments that the First Congress submitted to the states in 1789, but only Ten Amendments were ratified.
- Were adopted piecemeal over the course of almost fifty years after the Constitution was adopted.
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The United States Bill of Rights:
- Has always been designed to protect individual rights from the abuse of federal power; they have never been applied to what state governments can and cannot do.
- Has always been designed to protect individual rights from abuses committed by both federal and state legislatures.
- Was originally directed only at the federal government, but recent court decisions have applied some of the amendments to state power as well.
- Was originally directed at the federal government, but recent court decisions have established that all of the amendments apply to state governments as well.
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