No Bill of Rights, No Deal

No Bill of Rights, No Deal 1. The main disagreement about adding a bill of rights a bill of rights was whether... was necessary for protecting individual rights. 2. The Federalists, who supported the Constitution and opposed a bill of rights, generally believed... the Constitution alone protected individual rights, and it was unnecessary and even dangerous to list specific rights. 3. The Anti-Federalists, who opposed the Constitution the Constitution gave partly because there was no bill of rights, argued the government too that... much power, so it needed to list individuals' rights. 4. In the American colonies, government officials got 4th Amendment court orders authorizing them to enter any location to search for and take goods that had been smuggled into the country. These court orders were valid for the lifetime of the current king, plus six months. 5. During the 16th and 17th centuries in England, the 5th Amendment Star Chamber was a royal court that heard cases that couldn't be heard in regular courts. Before it was finally abolished, the court met in secret, tortured people to gain information, and sentenced people to huge fines, life in prison, and even mutilation. 6. John Wilkes was both a journalist and a member of 1st Amendment the British Parliament. In 1762, he published a severe criticism of a speech the king had given. Wilkes was arrested for publishing a "treasonous" newspaper intended to cause rebellion against the king. 1/2 7. For a trivial offence, a free man 8th Amendment shall be fined only in proportion to the degree of his offence, and for a serious offence correspondingly, but not so heavily as to deprive him of his livelihood. 8. In future no official shall place a man on trial upon 6th Amendment his own unsupported statement, without producing credible witnesses to the truth of it. 9. No free man shall be seized or imprisoned, or 5th Amendment stripped of his rights or possessions, or outlawed or exiled, or deprived of his standing in any way, nor will we proceed with force against him, or send others to do so, except by the lawful judgment of his equals or by the law of the land. 10. That it is the right of the subjects to petition the king, 1st Amendment and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal; 11. That the subjects which are Protestants may have 2nd Amendment arms for their defense suitable to their conditions and as allowed by law; 12. That excessive bail ought not to be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted; 2/2 8th Amendment