...reminds his readers that the Confederation had none.40 Hamilton had made the more extreme claim that "the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense,...and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS." The Constitution, he argues, does all such a bill is supposed to do. It "declare[s] and specifies] the...

...of rights." 28 There is much food for thought in Hamilton's remark that the Constitution itself is in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, a bill of rights. 29 It could be argued that he likened the Constitution to a bill of rights because it contained a limited...

...branches of the central government. In keeping with Hamilton's observation in Federalist No. 84 that "the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense,...and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS," the theory was that individual freedom was protected mainly through these structural features of our political...

...post facto laws, and the like." As a result of such "specified exceptions," Hamilton could argue that "the constitution is itself in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, a BILL OF RIGHTS."3 Thus were rights originally seen as a matter of community judgment as to what the limits...

...Hamilton described the 1787 Constitution, with its expansive delineation of national power, as "in itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS." Id., No. 84, 581. 159 4 Annals of Congress, 924 (3d Cong., 2d sess.). 160 Milbank, Social Theory, 19....

...readers another "view of this matter": "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." He offers up two basic reasons for this view; both relate to what he regards as the fundamental purposes...

...Hamilton had claimed that the elaborate system of checks and balances made the American constitution 'itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS' (Federalist No. 84). With the notable exception of the executive branch, Australia has a similar array...

...there is no power to do?"40 The Constitution itself provides for an ethos of limited government and is, "in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS."41 Such a bill introduced into or appended onto the text would merely provide a concrete statement...

...Rights. Alexander Hamilton held that the Constitution's system of separated and enumerated powers was "itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A Bill of Rights." The doctrine of separation of powers attained its axiomatic status for the founding generation in part...

...from criticism owing to its omission of a bill of rights. He claimed that the Constitution already was "itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS." Because the people would hold all governing power through their representatives, a bill of rights in...