Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Bill of Rights
- Declaration of Independence
- Justified breaking away from England and its ruler
- Signed in 1776
- Never amended/stands as is
- Lists grievances
caused by the
monarch
- Check and balance
system + set of laws
created because of such
grievances
- Written mostly by Thomas Jefferson
- Designed to establish a Government
- Made in 1789
- Added to constitution
in 1791
- citizens have a set of basic, indespensable rights
- Been ammended several times
- Check and
Balancing
system
- Made to balance
government
- Demands for morally correct human treatment
- Authored by James Madison
- Adamant about
protecting
individual rights
from
government