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Definition:
The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. When
debating whether or not to ratify the Constitution, many people complained that it did
not do enough to protect the rights of individual people. Others opposed the inclusion
of a list of specified rights on the theory that, if they listed some rights, then
governmental officials could assume that they were the only ones which existed.
The two sides compromised and it was promised that a series of amendments protecting individual rights would be written down and passed by the government after the Constitution was ratified. One of them, the Tenth Amendment, made explicit reference to the fact that the listing of rights is not exhaustive and that anything not specifically delegated to the federal government remained either with the people or with the states.
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