Bill of Rights

It's great that we have gotten a new constitution in the past few years.The problem is that it doesn't address our rights. Right now there is no guidelines saying what rights the we have as individuals. Having rights is very important to us because it will limit the power of the government. So now we are working on the Bill of Rights. Mr. James Madison first drafted the amendments on 1789.But now it is December 15, 1795 and the amendments are coming into effect after ratification by three-fourths of the states. Now we are guaranteed the right to freedom of speech, press, and religion. A long with many other rights such as the right to keep and bear arms, and also the rights to be free from search and seizure, cruel and unusual punishment, and compelled self-incrimination. As an individual of this time I am so grateful that we got the Bill of Rights because now we actually have "freedom".
It's not easy for you to make a unified nation out of people who are very diverse. But during the time of the Bill of Rights they didn't have much of a choice. The government didn't really think that their people needed a list of their own rights. But as individuals the people felt like that if they didn't have a list than the government wouldn't really acknowledge that the poeple had their rights.That is when they decided to make the Bill of Rights. That is how you make a united nation out of diverse people with different opinions. You have to compromise in order to make anything unified weither it be a nation or a family or a realationship.