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Show EMI of Rights. The bill of lights is a declaration of fundamental principles deemed ba sic to the Constitution itself and borrowed bor-rowed from the English bill of rights; of 1C89. When the Constitution of the j United States was framed and oub-mitted oub-mitted lo the people It did uoT. have j a bill of rights and ft was so harehly I criticized on this account that its 1 friends promised to incorporate or add such a declaration, and the first ten amendments to tho Constitution,, made after the main instrument was I adopted., were in fulfillment of this promise. All the State Constitutions now have bills of rights, practically Identical with one another. |