Why Might the Delegates to the Constitutional Convention Reject a Motion

Multiple Choice

Why might the delegates to the Constitutional Convention reject a motion to include a bill of rights in the Constitution?

A) The delegates thought rights should be guaranteed to the states,not to individual citizens.
B) The delegates thought that the federal government was already limited to its expressed powers,so a bill of rights was unnecessary.
C) The rights of citizens were a secondary concern to the delegates' personal self-interest.
D) A bill of rights would have required granting equal rights to women,which the delegates found to be politically unsavory.
E) They considered a bill of rights unnecessary in the U.S.Constitution since the United Nations' "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" already guaranteed a full set of political rights.