why did tne antifederalist insist on having a bill of rights in the constitutions?

Question

what problem with the constitution did the bill solve ?

Answer 1

It wasn't just the anti-feds. Many people felt better with an affirmative declaration of certain rights. When the Const. went to the various state legislatures & ratifying conventions, in all of them there was either a majority or large minority who wanted such affirmative declartions. In a number, amendments protecting certain rights were an express condition of approval. J. Madison & a committee of Congres undertook to distill these into amendments & after many discussions & revisions twelve (yes 12) proposed amendments to the text of the Constitution were submitted to the states for final ratification. The first 10 amendments were ratified by the necessary number of states by Dec, 1791; and the 11th became 27th Amendment when ratified in 1992. the 12th never made it.

Answer 2

The US had just broken away from being subjects of a monarchy whose only constraint was too often no more (and sometimes less) than was outlined in the British "bill of rights."

Several of the later states in their own ratification sessions approved the constitution only on the promise that a Bill of Rights would be included ASAP. The anti federalists were more concerned with it than the federalists by simple virtue of the fact that they were the group most concerned with preventing any increase of centralized power.

An interesting aside is that several early point men (in modern terms) even on the federalist side for trying to get the Constitution approved by the necessary 9 states were very concerned by the possibility that if a Bill of Rights was passed that it may someday come to be regarded as a list which defined the limits of what individuals could do with the federal government being allowed to do anything else. That someday seems to have come and then some.

Answer 3

They put it there to prevent misconstruction and abuse of the Constitution. It wasn't the anti-federalist it was all the Senate and Congress as requested by a number of the states. It is supposed to limit the Federals. However, I believe there is a place for the Federals. It's all about balance. It would be bad if the Fed's misconstructed and abused the Constitution but it has been equally bad when the people have misconstructed and abused the Constitution or just plain disregarded it. The Feds role in studying crime waves and watching over us from foreign powers is valuable. Watch the FBI Files and related documentaries and you might see the light. The Feds have saved us from alot of things...

Answer 4

The Bill of Rights protects alot of basic rights and freedoms that this country fought for in the Revolution. Freedom of speech, press, peaceful assembly, religion, right to bear arms and right to not quarter troops, right to a speedy trial of your peers, right to not be unreasonably searched, the right to face your accusers in court, protection from double jeopardy, freedom from unusually cruel punishments, and the right of states to have powers not delegated to the Federal government are all just a few examples of reasons the Bill of Rights was added.

Answer 5

yeah, what yauh mentioned. satirically, the invoice of rights ended up very much increasing the potential of the federal government. w/o the invoice of rights the shape is a rfile that states what the administrative.CAN do. each little thing else it won't be in a position to do. w/ the invoice of rights the shape will become a rfile that states what the administrative.CAN and could't do, each little thing else is up for grabs.