Why were the first ten ammendments approved?

Question

the first ten ammendments aka the bill of rights

Answer 1

To protect the people from the abuse of power.

Answer 2

The first ten ammendments were approved because the legislators believe that the changes were just right to serve the interests of the people.

Answer 3

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.


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).

Answer 4

They were put down on paper in plain English to guarantee there would always be freedom and liberty and justice in America. It was demanded by the people. It's insurance against a tyrant taking over here and destroying our beloved Constitution and Bill of Rights. They are the two most important documents in history.

Answer 5

They were approved to make Thomas Jefferson and the Democratic Republicans approve the Constitution. Tom was worried the government might have too much power and individuals would not have any rights.

Answer 6

the first 10 amendments were created to help the government do there job to look out for the best interest of the people.

Answer 7

because the ones that wrote them were in a bar, half lit and agreed on them.