"Cub Driver" wrote in message
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On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 21:47:40 GMT, Ed Rasimus
wrote:

The "Bill of Rights" (not an original American creation, by the way)
was added only after the 1787 convention had once tried to get the
document ratified. It wasn't a particularly anti-federalist action,
but simply an acknowledgement that while the Constitution spelled out
what the government "can" do, the people demanded guarantees of what
the government "can't" do.

More than that, agreement on the Constitution was actually predicated
on the promise that the Bill of Rights would immediately follow.

I don't remember why it wasn't included in the main document.

The Bill of Rights restricts the power of the Central Government and the
Federalists (libertarians) did not want the federal government resticted.

John P. Tarver, MS/PE