... did not provide a Bill of Rights to the Constitution because it just was not the topic of discussion at the Constitution Convention. States already had their own Bill of Rights and delegates did not think that the national government should infringe on their rights. Hamilton supported that idea when he stated "I go no further," he wrote in The Federalist, "and affirm that bill of rights are ... not only unnecessary in the proposed Constitution but would even be dangerous. They would contain various exceptions of colorable pretext to claim more than they were granted. For why declare tha...

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... government does or not do to create resources, benefits, costs, and burdens. (Birkland 5) For the sake of this argument, policy will be the rules, and those rules have various enforcement techniques, not to exclude legal enforcement. James Madison explained in Federalist 10, a primary benefit of federalism is that it contains policy fads or fast-moving popular movements ... Federalism stifles America. This will be displayed in the policies set forth on a national level and on certain state levels; including Fiscal policies, Regulatory policies, and Environmental policies. James Madison,...

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... basic freedoms. Why didn't the Constitution have a bill of rights? The Federalists, who did not see the need for a bill 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 abuse areas of liberty that were NOT specifically prescribed ... in t...

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