HIST - History HIST 100 Lecture : History left. 6 - bill of rights.docx
7 Oct 2014
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Purpose of bor: formally independent of constitution, historically and structurally linked, bor was part of family and ratifying constitution, bor = ratified in 1791, constitution created more powerful central government, bor places limitations on that central government, constitution and bor together establish temper balance between states and central government, bor not originally concerned with individual rights e. Implications: state government were not restrained by bor, states were beneficiaries of bor, not its target, rights are enjoyed by the people in the form of states, barron case in supreme court (1833, state cannot violate the bor, only 14th am. Vii: bor makes explicit rights that federalists saw as already implicit, state ratifying conventions called for amendments, many lawmakers to be re elected in only two years, two states call for new constitution convention, to induce nc and ri to ratify, as indeed they did in 1789 (nc) and 1790 (ri)
