...That is what Alexander Hamilton meant when he wrote, in Federalist No. 84, that without amendments, "the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, a BILL OF RIGHTS." 8 But Madison had come to see that one critical thing was lacking; he saw that no matter how sound...

...might impliedly deny those rights not remembered to have been included in the bill. Finally, he argued, "the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, a bill of rights." What he meant was that the true and only security of private rights consistent with the public good...

...JUDICIAL SUPREMACY 209-10 (1959). be explained in the next section. In Alexander Hamilton's opinion, "the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A Bill of Rights."*3 II. THE JUDICIARY'S DUTY TO PROTECT LIBERTY The Federalists maintained that the national...

...libertarian character. Accordingly, the framers maintained, as Hamilton stated in The Federalist #84, "that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purposes, a Bill of Rights."21 If the framers were right in 1787, Mayton, though derivative, is also...

...view of this matter to conclude the point. The truth is, after all the declamation we have heard, that the constitution is itself in every rational sense,...A BILL OF RIGHTS. The several bills of rights, in Great-Britain, form its k'To show that there is a power in the constitution by which the liberty of...

...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...

...overall structure of the government created in the Constitution. "The truth is", wrote Hamilton, "that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, "A BILL OF RIGHTS." This is so, he said, because the structure and administration of the government make clear the political...

...Nonetheless, when a Federalist like Hamilton tells the people of New York (in Federalist number 84) that "the constitution is itself in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, a Bill of Rights," he means not simply that it confers only delegated powers on the government, but that it secures rights...

...can adjust them to each other in a harmonious and consistent WHOLE. (No. 82) THE TRUTH Is ... that the Constitution is itself in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS. (No. 84) THE GREAT BULK of the citizens of America, are with reason convinced that union is the basis...

...Constitution fit the bill, so to speak. For Hamilton and many others, the Philadelphia Constitution was "itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS."14 But this point can be flipped around. As I have tried to show throughout, the Bill of Rights...