The Bill of Rights

Question 1

Thomas Jefferson (Bill of Rights)

Answer 1

“A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government.”

Question 2

George Mason (Bill of Rights)

Answer 2

“There is no Declaration of Rights.”

Question 3

Alexander Hamilton (in Federalist No. 84, 1788)

Answer 3

“The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS.”

Question 4

Patrick Henry (Government)

Answer 4

Show me when rulers where “being good men, without a consequent loss of liberty?”