text:  Well, that's another great story. You could do a whole session on that, and this is a wonderful example of Madison's mind as well. The Constitutional Convention considers the idea of adding a Bill of Rights to the Constitution and overwhelmingly voted down. George Mason and others famously don't sign the Constitution because that's one of the problems they see in it. And at several of the ratification conventions, they will only ratify it if there's a Bill of Rights added.