Why do you think the Founders added the Ninth Amendment to the Bill of Rights?
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This amendment was added as a specific response to the Anti-Federalists (Madison, Jay and Hamilton) who were arguing that they were afraid if a specific right wasn't written into the Constitution the government could infringe on it. It was designed as a catchall to ensure that just because a specific right wasn't spelled out in black and white the government would not be allowed to simply trample it. This, by far and away, was the most important aspect of ensuring that the document that framed the fledgling US government was one that decided what the GOVERNMENT could and could not do rather than a basis for what the PEOPLE could and could not do.
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Dear Friend,\n\nDo you mean "which amendments to the Constitution contained in the Bill of Rights had the most impact on businesses"?  If so, I would say the First Amendment.  Not only does it provide explicit safe haven for our huge media, news, and entertainment industries, the First Amendment protects vital commercial free speech (including advertising, political expenditures, and lobbying).\n\nOr do you mean, "Which amendments to the Constitution subsequent to the Bill of Rights have had the most impact on business"?  If that's the question, I'd say the 14th amendment.  That amendment, intended for the protection of newly-freed African Americans, set forth:\n\n"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. "\n\nBut "person" was deemed to include corporate as well as natural persons, so corporations finally obtained due process rights.\n\nYour Friend,\nFrancesois
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No, it wouldn't. It was based on: IN GOD WE TRUST. Too bad others have come along and took what our forefathers had in mind when writing our constitution and twisted it. Too bad there is barely any freedoms left in this country to enjoy without being lashed out at against by some group or another. I wonder what our Founding Fathers would think of our "progress" if they could see us now?
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Of course our rights stem from the Bill of Rights which amended the Constitution.  However, and more importantly, our rights are preserved by the "Rule of Law" and that depends on our Court system being independent of Congress or the Whitehouse.  Many countries had constitutions, lawyers and elections but lost their freedom when they lost the rule of law.  Nazi Germany is a good example.  I know of investors who shy away from investments in Russia today because they doubt that the rule of law there will protect their rights.  perhaps things will change for the better.
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Common misunderstanding, but laudable that you are asking, because it is theonly way we can become self-governed again. \n\nThe U.S. Constitution only grants one right. The fist 10 Amendments, added twelve years later, are called "The Bill of Rights," and are probably what you're thinking of.\n\nA "right" is something granted by law, something you can take to court and win. A privilege, can be taken away at any time at the whim of those few in power.\n\nLike someone in the military has almost no rights. But they have lots of privileges. An underage child has no rights, but has privileges. \n\nThe one test to find out if you have a right, e.g., the case of a child, is to find out if this person or entity can sue or be sued. If not, then there are no rights. \n\nRead the Constitution on my web site listed below, then read the explanation of the Amendments. You'll find that the one main reason for the Constitution was to set up a Federal Gov't, and at the same time, limit their power. Their greatest fear was that the Fed would become more powerful than a State, and rule the States from afar and dictate their laws, and invade our states at will. But of course, that has happened anyway hasn't it, because nobody is policing the police (the Fed) or enforcing the Constitution.\n\nThey tried to weaken the Fed by breaking them up into 3 branches; Executive, Legislative, and Judiciary. If those three ever came together, we would have a totalitarian dictatorship, similar to a King ruling us dictating our every move. For examply, only Congress can pass new law, which represents each State. But the President (Executive) decrees new laws every day by executive order. The courts (Judicial Branch) interpret and change laws every day. So the inevitible has happened; all three branches are acting as one, and nobody seems to care.
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Certainly within the Founders True Intent of the Constitution, States rights were recognized.  With the Union federal government winning of the civil war and the application of the 1868 14th Amendment (justified in Texas v. White [1869] since it never met Constitutional ratification requirements), States came under the power of the federal government and States rights began to diminish.  \n\nThrough the years the federal government has increasingly intruded into what the Founders would have considered as the Constitutional territory of the States.  One of the primary roles of the States (prior to the Civil war) was to protect the rights of its citizens relative to actions of the federal government through an action termed State Nullification.  In this function a single State legislature could decide that federal action was not Constitutional and nullify it in that single State.  \n\nTo get this back where it once was, a Constitutional Amendment would have to be ratified noting the Sovereign role of the States and their power to nullify federal action.
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The Bill 'of' Rights are the first 10 Amendments to the US Constitution.
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WITHOUT THE CONSTITUTION,WHAT GUARANTEE WOULD YOU HAVE THAT YOU CAN KEEP ANY FREEDOMS.THERE WERE PEOPLE THAT WANTED TO MAKE WASHINGTON A KING AFTER THE REVOLUTION WAS WON.ALL WOULD HAVE BEEN FOR NAUGHT.BE THANKFUL HIS AND OTHER HEADS WERE CLEAR TO THE CAUSE.
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They are asking what America means to YOU.  And you are right on for wanting to include the bill of rights.  It is the most perfect documeht any government has ever had.  It is the foundation for anything that makes us great, that and our multi-cultures.It is the only justification we have ever had for stealing the Indians land from them.  Anyway our country is on the right track you can trace it down and find that in that area we are alligned with the constitution.  With the precept and concepts of equality and justice and people governing their own government.  With those rights we hold to be God give and inalienable (meaning they CANT be taken away) Any area where we arent being or doing what we should shows how we are not aligned with the bill of rights,its concepts and precepts. As an American I believe the bill of rights is America. Its the liberty bell, Betsy ross, fourth of july picnics, boats trains cities like New York all rolled up.  I know the bill of rights will save the world someday.  Because America will wake up in time to say what is the point of freedom of speech, to worship as we see fit, to assemble, if all our freedoms our on a dying soil. And we will get rid of the corporate take over, and glutted big business and the military industrial complex, and we will have nothing but forest rangers and coast guards where there was once a killing military. And instead of the dow chemical corporation we will have Lloyds home laboratories  and small businesses will flourish.   America will once again be a fertile paradise and the Indians hearts will be glad.
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Because at the time, it seemed to make the most sense to everyone.  Some people agreed and others disagreed on some aspects of it but it appeased the majority of people in each state.  Off the top of my head that is what I can come up with at the time.    Dude I answered like two of your history questions.    Do you need things for a history class by the way??  Go to constituioncenter.org if you need more info on the constitution.  Hope that helps!!
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From 1777 to 1788 when the Constitution was ratified, the Articles of Confederation was the governing document of the United States. The articles gave the majority of power to the states to establish their own laws. The Constitution was written by the Second Continental Congress in order to give the federal government more authority. The Bill of Rights was written in 1789 in response to concerns that the constitution gave the federal government too much power.
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Our forefathers almost didn't sign the Constitution. Do you know why, what they feared most?\n\nThey did not fear Britain or India or China or Spain or the Dutch or all of them put together. They feared that the Federal Gov't, once created by them and the Constitution, would become more powerful than their State. So they split the Federal Gov't into three branches and penned the Constitution to limit their powers. \n\nThere is no question that in order to keep their freedom, the right to bear arms was central to that freedom, because politicians only fear two things: public opinion and guns.
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The Bill of Rights are the original 10 amendments to the Constitution. The Founding Fathers felt uneasy as they thought their Constitution did not do enough to protect the basic Civil Liberties of the American people so they created the Bill of Rights (hence the name.) The Bill of Rights covers things like freedom of the press, right to trial, equal protection under the law, and the right to own a bear arms. The Federalist Papers are explanations written by the Founding Fathers in hope to clear up some of the incredibly vague language used.
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These are some of your rights if that is what you mean\n\n1.The First Amendment guarantees the freedom of worship, of speech, of the press, of assembly, and of petition to the government for redress of grievances.\n2.The right to bear arms openly–adopted with reference to state militias–is guaranteed by the Second Amendment\n3.The Fifth Amendment provides that no person shall be held for "a capital or otherwise infamous crime" without indictment, be twice put in "jeopardy of life or limb" for the same offense, be compelled to testify against himself, or "be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law."\n4.The Sixth Amendment guarantees the right of speedy and public trial by an impartial jury\n5.Seventh Amendment guarantees the right of trial by jury\n6.The Ninth Amendment states that "The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."\n7.By the Tenth Amendment "The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
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During the Constitutional Convention it was agreed (to get support for the Constitution) that one of the first acts of congress would be to draft a Bill of Rights.  James Madison was assigned this drafting task.  He substantially based his efforts on the work of George Mason who was the primary writer of the Virginia Declaration of Rights.  (Within these efforts was what would become the Sixth Amendment.)  The end result became the proposed Bill of Rights which was offered by the First Congress to the several States.
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Neither.\n\nThe genius of the founding fathers of the United States was not that they knew everything, but that they understood that they could not know everything. With that humble attitude, they included in the Constitution a feature which allows future generations to update the Constitution to fit the changing times.\n\nLook at all the amendments which have been added to the Constitution. Every amendment is a slight change to the Constitution to keep it updated with the times. \n\nThe 18th and 21st amendments are a perfect example. The 18th amendment was the prohibition of alcohol because people at that time thought that alcohol would destroy the country.\n\nWhen the people finally realized that the prohibition of alcohol gave rise to an even greater threat (gangsters like Al Capone), they decided to undo the 18th amendment with the 21st amendment. That's the Constitution changing with the times.
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Admendment 9\nOther Rights of the People (1791)\nThe enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.\n\nThe rightsof the people are not limited to thoses stated in the Constitution.\n\nUsing the quote you put in, it's the\n\nAdmendment 10 Powers of the States and the People (1791)\nThe powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.\n\nPowers not granted to the United States government and not forbidden to the states are left to the states or to the people.