MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
CREATING STATE CONSTITUTIONS AFTER THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
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bill of rights
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a legislature
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the power to make laws
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Most state constitutions had their own bills of rights, and those generally included provisions similar to those found in the First Amendment. But the state provisions could be enforced only by state courts.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Federalists opposed including a bill of rights on the ground that it was unnecessary. The Anti-Federalists, who were afraid of a strong centralized government, refused to support the Constitution without one.
Detailed explanation-3: -Many of the rights and liberties Americans cherish-such as freedom of speech, religion, and due process of law-were not enumerated in the original Constitution drafted at the Philadelphia Convention in 1787, but were included in the first ten amendments, known as the Bill of Rights.
Detailed explanation-4: -All state constitutions have a bill of rights, with most of the protections as in the Bill of Rights in the Constitution of the United States, and many states also guarantee other rights.
Detailed explanation-5: -Every State constitution possesses a “bill of rights” or “declaration of rights.” State constitutions have considerable portions dealing with the suffrage and elections.