Why Might the Delegates to the Constitutional Convention Reject a Motion

question 85

Multiple Choice

Why might the delegates to the Constitutional Convention reject 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 felt a bill of rights was unnecessary because they thought that the federal government was already limited to its expressed powers.
• C)The rights of citizens were a secondary concern to the delegates' personal self-interest.
• D)A bill of rights would have required granting equal rights to women, which the delegates found to be politically unsavory.
• E)They considered a bill of rights unnecessary in the U.S.Constitution because the United Nations' "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" already guaranteed a full set of political rights.

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