| Bill of Rights When the Constitution was agreed upon in September, 1787, there were three men at the Constitutional Convention who would not sign it. They felt that part of the job of government should be to protect the rights of its citizens, and those rights were not clearly stated in the Constitution. On March 4, 1789, the Bill of Rights was suggested. At first, there were 12 amendments, but only 10 were added to the Constitution. (The first two were left out.) Read through the Bill of Rights. Even though the words are sometimes hard to understand, see if you can figure out what rights these amendments gave to the people. Do you think life in our country would be different
if those amendments had not been added to our government’s
plan? Make a list of problems that we might have today without
the Bill of Rights. (Remember that many other amendments have
been added since 1789.)
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