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Growing Pains: The New Republic, 1790-1820 The Bill of Rights Because the 1787 Constitution appeared to be a risky concentration of concentrated authority that endangered the rights and freedoms of common Americans, many people were against it. Although these opponents-collectively referred to as Anti- Federalists-did not form a political party, they banded together to demand the defense of individual rights, and several states stipulated that ratification of the Constitution would require the passage of a bill of rights. North Carolina and Rhode Island rejected the Constitution because it lacked this particular list of rights. The 1789 introduction and approval of the law of Rights by Congress by Representative James Madison of Virginia fulfilled the promise made by Federalists to include such a law. Adopted in 1791, the measure defined many of the personal rights already protected by state constitutions and included the first ten amendments to the Constitution. In addition to providing the new federal government more legitimacy among those who would have otherwise mistrusted the new centralized power established by men of property during the covert 1787 Philadelphia Constitutional Convention, the Bill of Rights helped to mitigate the Anti-Federalists' opposition to the document.

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