POS 301 Topic 5 DQ 1

POS 301 Topic 5 DQ 1

The purpose of the Bill of Rights at the time the U.S. Constitution was drafted was to get the Constitution approved and to not give the government too much power in certain areas. The Bill of Rights limit the amount of power the government has. It protects the rights of American citizens. It specified what the government could do but did not say what it could not do. For another, it did not apply to everyone. The “consent of the governed” meant propertied white men only. The Bill of Rights is the same today, as it was then. The only difference is now it allows for freedoms despite ethnicity, race, gender, or sexual orientation—provisions that were not made in 1789.

Reference:

ACLU (2016). The Bill of Rights: A brief history, Retrieved from:

https://www.aclu.org/bill-rights-brief-history