Ben Franklin's World15 Okt 2019

260 Origins of the Bill of Rights (Doing History 4)

How and why did Congress draft the First Ten Amendments to the Constitution?

In the United States, we use the Constitution and Bill of Rights to understand and define ourselves culturally. Americans are a people with laws and rights that are protected by the Constitution because they are defined in the Constitution. And the place where the Constitution defines and outlines our rights is within its First Ten Amendments, the Bill of Rights.

In this second episode of our 4th Doing History series, we’re investigating how and why Congress drafted the First Ten Amendments to the Constitution. Our guide for this investigation is Kenneth Bowling, a member of the First Federal Congress Project and a co-editor of A Documentary History of the First Federal Congress. 

Show Notes: https://www.benfranklinsworld.com/260

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Production of this episode was made possible by a grant from the Roller-Bottimore Foundation of Richmond, Virginia.

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