CSPAN2 Authors Discuss The Preservation Of Americas Founding Documents February 19, 2017
Constitutional convention. It does not contain a bill of rights. Why . Madison says that a bill of rights would be unnecessary or dangerous. Unnecessary because the constitution itself is the bill of rights and by constraining Congress Power and the president s power, it gives the federal government no authority to infringe the retained inalienable natural rights of conscience and speech and other basic liberties. And dangerous because madison that is the right answer rights in the bill of rights, people might wrongly assumed it is separate down, it is not protected. Because the framers believ...