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"some of these rights are said to be unalienable, such as the rights of conscience: yet even these have been often invaded, where they have not been carefully secured by express and solemn bills and declarations in their favor." the quote above illustrates an argument in favor of ratifying the constitution without a bill of rights ratifying the constitution with a bill of rights people giving up some of their rights in exchange for protection by government increasing the powers of the federal government

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The correct answer is ratifying the constitution with a bill of rights

This was a key component of the anti-federalist speeches. They wanted to have a bill of rights included as a certainty, not as an implied thing. They believed that if the bill of rights does not specifically enumerate rights, governments could just exploit them and take their rights away if it suited them for various purposes.
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