Constitutional rights wikipedia

The Bill of Rights is the name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, which limit the power of the federal government and guarantee citizens of the United States certain rights

The amendments were written in 1789 by James Madison, and were based on important ideas about personal rights

Stewart characterizes the omission of a Bill of Rights in the original Constitution as "a political blunder of the first magnitude" while historian Jack N

Rakove calls it "the one serious miscalculation the framers made as they looked ahead to the struggle over ratification"

Thirty-nine delegates signed the finalized Constitution