Many states refused to ratify the Constitution unless a general listing of the rights of the people were added to it. This demand led to the creation and adoption of the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitution, which explicitly enumerated individual rights and protections.
Many states refused to ratify the Constitution unless...
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it established a one-house legislature.
Congress promised to ban the slave trade at once.
it stipulated that the provisions of the Bill of Rights would apply to only the national government.
a general listing of the rights of the people were added to it.
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