Why would Patrick Henry and George Mason would want to add the Bill of Rights into the constitution?

Question

This is the time when the Ratification happened. Please help me with the questions. Thank You!

Answer 1

for safety

Answer 2

Initially drafted by James Madison in 1789, the Bill of Rights was written at a time when ideological conflict between Federalists and anti-Federalists, dating from the Philadelphia Convention in 1787, threatened the Constitution's ratification. The Bill was influenced by George Mason's 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights, the 1689 English Bill of Rights, works of the Age of Enlightenment pertaining to natural rights, and earlier English political documents such as the Magna Carta (1215). The Bill was largely a response to the Constitution's influential opponents, including prominent Founding Fathers, who argued that it failed to protect the basic principles of human liberty.

The Bill of Rights plays a central role in American law and government, and remains a fundamental symbol of the freedoms and culture of the nation. One of the original fourteen copies of the Bill of Rights is on public display at the National Archives in Washington, DC.

The original documents actually contain 12 amendments; however, the first two were not initially ratified, though the second one was ratified two centuries later as the 27th Amendment. Since the first two amendments dealt with Congress itself rather than the rights of the people, the term "Bill of Rights" has traditionally meant only the amendments numbered "third" through "twelfth" in the documents, which were ratified as the first ten amendments; that traditional usage has continued even since the ratification of the 27th Amendment.

Answer 3

Because they feared the power of big goverment.