I'm sad to say that nobody was able to give the right answers.

A reminder :

"A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against
every government on earth."
Who said that ?
When ?
What were the arguments?

Kaushel on air!

Thomas Jefferson, who did not attend the Constitutional Convention, in a December 1787 letter to Madison called the omission of a Bill of Rights a major mistake: "A bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth."

You are invited to visit this page. You'll find the Bill of Rights and very useful informations. For most people throughout the world, any progress of rights is most of the time related to a crisis often violent at a time the powerful "step back" on non essential and fundamental rights to end the crisis.... What's make the US Bill of Rights so special in mankind history is that it wasn't written in such circumtances. The powerful (that's what were Georges Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, all biographies can be found on the White House website) at the time thought (special thanks to T. Jefferson) one the first thing we have to do as we lead is protect the People from us and make it in a way that will last. Stunning men, were they politicians?

The Bill of Rights value, in Madison's view, was in part educational, in part as a vehicle that might be used to rally people against a future oppressive government, and finally--in an argument borrowed from Thomas Jefferson--Madison argued that a declaration of rights would help install the judiciary as "guardians" of individual rights against the other branches.

I kept asking myself, what drove them, why did they reach that level of generosity and care for the People to think it needed to be protected from the kind they were more than 200 years ago.

Well! New homework, I'll be waiting for a four pages essay, here is the subject :

Do you wish to see your country add your Constitution a Bill of Rights? Are there other rights that you wish to be included in the Bill of Rights? What are they? Are there some rights included in the Bill of Rights that you think unsuitable for your country? What are they and Why?