What is the connection between ratification and the Bill of Rights?
1- The Bill of Rights was ratified two years after the Constitution went into effect.
2- Five states ratified on the condition that amendments would be added soon after the Constitution went into effect.
3- Alexander Hamilton opposed a Bill of Rights because he feared that if rights were written down, the rights of the people would be limited to only those rights that were written in the Constitution.
4- The Constitutional Convention considered a Bill of Rights but decided not to include it in the document that it sent to the states.