All 26 Uses
Bill of Rights
in
The Federalist Papers -- Modern English Edition 2
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- New York has no bill of rights and her constitution says nothing about the matter.
p. 92.8bill of rights = a statement of fundamental rights and privileges
- The other States have no bill of rights and their constitutions are silent.
p. 92.8bill of rights = a statement of fundamental rights and privileges
- Its Bill of Rights says that standing armies are dangerous to liberty and should not be kept up in peacetime.
p. 96.2 *
- A third doesn't object to the government over individuals but wants a bill of rights.
p. 135.1
- A fourth says a bill of rights is necessary but it should not declare the personal rights of individuals, but the rights reserved to the States.
p. 135.1
- A fifth believe that a bill of rights would be superfluous, but the Constitution has the fatal power of regulating the times and places of election.
p. 135.1
- Is a bill of rights essential to liberty?
p. 136.7bill of rights = a statement of fundamental rights and privileges listed in the first ten amendments to the United
- The Articles has no bill of rights.
p. 136.7bill of rights = a statement of fundamental rights and privileges
- 2 The most important of the remaining objections is that the new Constitution contains no bill of rights.
p. 316.2 *Bill of Rights = a statement of fundamental rights and privileges listed in the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution
- Some of the State constitutions also have no bill of rights.
p. 316.2
- New York has no bill of rights.
p. 316.3bill of rights = a statement of fundamental rights and privileges
- Yet people who oppose the new Constitution, people in New York who profess an unlimited admiration for New York's constitution, are demanding a bill of rights.
p. 316.3Bill of Rights = a statement of fundamental rights and privileges listed in the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution
- Therefore, a bill of rights doesn't belong in the Constitution.
p. 318.4
- 10 A bill of rights is not only unnecessary in the proposed Constitution, but would be dangerous.
p. 318.8
- 12 The Constitution is, in every rational sense and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS.
p. 319.4
- Conversely, the constitution of each State is its bill of rights.
p. 319.5
- And the proposed Constitution, if adopted, will be the bill of rights of the Union.
p. 319.5
- Does a bill of rights list the political privileges of the citizens in the structure and administration of the government?
p. 319.5
- Should a bill of rights define certain immunities and modes of proceeding in personal and private concerns?
p. 320.1
- Therefore, referring to what is meant by a bill of rights, it is absurd to say that it is not in the proposed Constitution.
p. 320.1
- Among the imagined defects are:
no term limits for the Executive,
no executive council,
no formal bill of rights, and
no provision for the liberty of the press.
New York's constitution doesn't have these provisions.p. 324.3 - The Bill of Rights limited his authority.†
p. 97.9
- Number 84: Bill of Rights; Capital; Debts due Union; Expenses†
p. 316.1
- Bill of Rights†
p. 316.2
- Parliament then made it the "Bill of Rights."†
p. 318.3
- Constitution as Bill of Rights†
p. 319.4
Definitions:
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(1)
(Bill of Rights as in: of the US Constitution) a statement of fundamental rights and privileges listed in the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution
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(2)
(bill of rights as in: of any constitution) rights guaranteed in any document such as the 1689 English Bill of Rights
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)