Why Might the Delegates to the Constitutional Convention Have Rejected

question 44

Multiple Choice

Why might the delegates to the Constitutional Convention have rejected a motion to include a bill of rights in the Constitution?

• A) The delegates thought rights should be guaranteed to the states, not to individual citizens.
• B) The delegates thought that the federal government was already limited to its expressed powers, so a bill of rights was unnecessary.
• C) The delegates were pressed for time and considered setting up a basic governmental framework to be vastly more important.
• D) A bill of rights would have required granting equal rights to women, which the delegates found to be politically unsavory.

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