Note: The first ten amendments to the US Constitution were ratified December 15, 1791, and form what is known as the “Bill of Rights.” They were inspired by Virginia delegate George Mason, who left the Constitutional Convention in disgust, declaring the new Constitution had no declaration of rights. When James Madison drafted the amendments to the Constitution that were to become the Bill of Rights, he drew heavily upon the ideas put forth in the Virginia Declaration of Rights.
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