American Government

Running head: AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
American Government
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AMERICAN GOVERNMENT
Part 1:
The Bill of Rights is a conglomeration of the first 10 amendments in the Constitution.
Bill of Rights protects the individual liberties by imposing certain prohibitions on the power of
the Government in the US. While Federalists argue against the Bill of Rights as it advocated a
strong Government in the Centre Anti-Federalists pushed the Bill of Rights to be included in the
Constitution to safeguard the interests of individuals and to keep a balance in power between the
State and Local Governments.
In objection to the demand of Federalists to have a strong central government Anti-Federalists
gave the following reasons to ensure power stays with both state and local governments in the
country.
I. To limit the government powers to protect the individual rights in the country.
II. Individual liberty must be safeguarded and with strong central government there is
genuine risk to the individual liberty.
III. To protect the freedom of speech of individuals in the country (Waldron, 2017).
Part 2:
To protect the individual freedom of Americans the following civil liberties were
included:
No prohibition on free exercise of religion:
The right to exercise religious practices of the individuals in the country without any restriction
is included thus, Congress shall not have any power to make any law to interfere with the free
practice of religion in the country.