Question

The Bill of Rights was added to what important United States document? Why did people feel more protected by the Constitution after the Bill of Rights was ratified and added to it in 1791?

Answer 1

5a. The Constitution of the United States

The proposal by George Mason, author of the \/irginia Declaration of Rights (1776), to preface the United States Constitution with a bill of rights was rejected by delegates at the 1787 Constitutional Convention. 5b. The Bill of Rights, commonly known as the First Ten Amendments, established specific rights for citizens of the United States that the government could not deny them under the Constitution, which is the ultimate law of the land.