The Bill of Rights and Later Amendments to the Constitution
In 1607, radical revolutionaries arrived in America with the dream of freedoms they were not given in their home country. Purely motivated by a thirst for equality, these pilgrims set out for the New World in hopes of establishing religious freedom, and while this is partly the case, there is a whole other motivator that is left untouched by popular tellings of American history. The primary motivator for colonizing America was not religious freedom, but as it often is in history, money. The Virginia Company wished to collect America’s natural resources, and it is for this reason that those first colonists made the treacherous journey. This practice of highlighting heroism within
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This was primarily argued by the Anti-Federalist party, a party who opposed a strong central government and who advocated for states to be given the right to run themselves. The main concern of the Anti-Federalists was that a government that was given to much power would become an oppressive dictatorship ship which would inevitably strip the citizen of its inalienable rights. For this reason, the Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution in order to appease the Anti-Federalist party. Largely, the addition of the Bill of Rights to the United States Constitution was a political move. Ultimately, the Bill of Rights was added as an afterthought, as a means to an end. The Federalists, the party who supported the Constitution, desired for their document supporting their ideas to be passed into law, and this could only be done by appeasing the Anti-Federalists. The real motivator behind the Bill of Rights being drafted was not the fabled good old fashioned American heroism that fights tooth and nail for the Everyman, it was a political agenda (Misiroglu).
The same political agenda was responsible for the addition of other amendments to the Constitution, two notable amendments being the Eighteenth and the Twenty-First Amendments, which were directly tied to