Why does the Constitution have a Bill of Rights? What purpose do they serve?
Professor Randy Barnett discusses how the Anti-federalists insisted on a Bill of Rights, which the Federalists agreed to in return for ratification of the Constitution. The Bill of Rights are a protection for the citizens if the structure of the Constitution itself fails to protect their rights adequately.
Professor Randy E. Barnett is the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches constitutional law and contracts, and is Director of the Georgetown Center for the Constitution.
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