1. From Confederation to Constitution
... of rights, felt that a list of specific rights was not necessary. In fact, it was detrimental to protecting individual rights. The opinion of Federalists (as written by Alexander Hamilton in Federalist Paper No. 84) was that if the Constitution contained a list of specific individual rights and liberties that the national government COULD NOT abuse then it might ENABLE the national government to ... ...
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- Grade Level: High School