...dispirited or, worse, corrupt government. Finally, Hamilton insisted that the Constitution already was "in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS." What, he asked, does a bill of rights do? It "declare[s] and specifies] the political privileges of...

...for the United States of America." And he roundly concludes with the claim, "The truth is ... that the constitution is itself in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, a Bill of Rights."13 Too fine a point, however, need not be put on the dichotomy between liberty singular and...

...of this matter to conclude the point. The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense,...constitution of each State is its bill of rights. And the proposed Constitution, if adopted, will be the bill of rights of the Union. Is it one object...

...that it was unnecessary to include the Bill of Rights in the Constitution. Alexander Hamilton wrote. "The Constitution is itself. in every rational sense. and to every useful purpose. a bill of rights." "Here. in strictness. the people surrender nothing."6711 Having their eyes on the future. the draftsmen...

...upon the property rights that government was designed to protect. "The Constitution," Hamilton wrote, "is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS."28 z5. See Berns, supra note 1, at 81-8z. z6. Locke, supra note 6, at 11143-144. z7. Montesquieu,...

...not include a Bill of Rights, much less an entrenched one. As Hamilton wrote in Federalist No. 84, "the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense,...and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS." The Federalist No. 84, p. 515 (Alexander Hamilton). The arguments in favor of adopting a Bill of Rights...

...would either benefit or harm particular persons or groups. "[T]he Constitution," Hamilton asserted, "is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS."40 Thus, he thought, there was no need for framing an additional bill of rights. However, the...

...framers was well stated by Alexander Hamilton, who argued in Federalist No. 84 that the Constitution was "itself in every rational sense and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS.'"t Hamilton insisted that "bills of rights, in the sense and to the extent in which they [we]re...

...argued that rights were protected through the well-crafted institutions of governance, suggesting that the "Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS." 4 A corollary of diis argument is that, in the absence of a well-ordered constitution, rights may not...

...power of kings and that democratic government did not need one. "The truth is," Hamilton wrote, "that the Constitution is itself in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose a BILL OF RIGHTS." Hamilton was able John Jay Alexander Hamilton sjtfDjyi nicr Patrick^ Henry argued his cause before...