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Why did the American people want a bill of rights to be included in the Constitution?
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Why did the American people want a bill of rights to be included in the Constitution?

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Federalists argued that the Constitution did not need a bill of rights, because the people and the states kept any powers not given to the federal government. Anti-Federalists held that a bill of rights was necessary to safeguard individual liberty.
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To safe guard individual rights... I think
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