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What do you think it means that the

Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen comes
before the French Constitution, while the Bill of
Rights comes after the United States
Constitution?

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James Madison wrote the amendments, which list specific prohibitions on governmental power, in response to calls from several states for greater constitutional protection for individual liberties. ... Anti-Federalists held that a bill of rights was necessary to safeguard individual liberty.
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