'Many people believe our government’s relationship to individual rights is wrong. But they don’t agree as to how. Do we suffer a deluge or dearth of constitutional rights?' -Adam Carrington
. All of these answers come from a particular segment of the Constitution: the Bill of Rights.
the penultimate essay in the most important defense of the Constitution ever produced. In it, Alexander Hamilton addressed the objection that the proposed Constitution lacked such a bill. In doing so, he revealed, perhaps unintentionally, a permanent tension within American politics. A bill of rights would prove counterproductive, too, because it would undermine the very goals its supporters sought. A list of individual rights conveyed the idea that government gave such rights rather than those rights being the original, natural possession of the people. Such provisions also shifted the burden of proof from the government to the individual when the two came into dispute.
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