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The Bill of Rights
The first ten amendments to the US constitution are called the Bill of
Rights because they provide basic legal protection for individual rights. The
terms also applied to the English Bill of Rights of 1689 and the Canadian Bill
of Rights 1960, and to similar guarantees in the constitutions of the American
states.
From the perspective of two centuries, it can be said that Madison ....
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.... The result was a movement
as soon as independence was declared, to adopt bindings constitutions that
limited governmental power and protected individual rights. Seven of the
thirteen states adopted constitutions that included specific bills of rights.
The first state bill of rights was the Virginia Declaration of Rights, adopted
as part of the state b's first constitution on June 12,1776.
Virginia's declaration, drafted mainly by George Manson, served as the
model both for similar stat ....
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