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Why were specific individual rights added to the Constitution?

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Specific individual rights were added the constitution because those rights was getting violated by the king of England( king George III)
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To safeguard liberty for the present and the future.

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Although Federalists argued that states and individuals kept rights not specifically taken by the Federal government, Anti-Federalists were still skeptical especially since they had just fought a revolutionary war over government taking rights/ abusing their power and a lack of representation in parliament. Anti Federalists felt it was necessary to impose these in writing to that in the future a ever growing power of the federal government could not take specific liberties away from the individual.

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