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The Importance of the Bill of Rights in Protecting Individual Liberties
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The Bill of Rights was created to clarify and protect individual liberties, as many feared that without listing specific rights, other important liberties would be overlooked. Despite some differences in understanding, all agreed on the importance of individual liberty in the United States.
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The Bill of Rights was written not to limit the protection of rights to those listed, but to clarify and expand the protection of rights through the creation of a national entity that oversees the protection of those rights.
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The Bill of Rights was written not to limit the protection of rights to those listed, but to clarify and expand the protection of rights through the creation of a national entity that oversees the protection of those rights. Madison's objection to the Bill of Rights was based on his concern that the listing of some rights would exclude the protection of others.
ChapterThe Importance of the Bill of Rights in Protecting Individual Liberties
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The Founding Fathers' primary concern in breaking away from England was preserving individual liberties rather than the importance of having a nation.
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The Founding Fathers' primary concern in breaking away from England was preserving individual liberties rather than the importance of having a nation. Their struggle was to establish a political system that would maintain these liberties which they saw as traditional English rights.