PSC 2302 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Anti-Federalism, Compulsory Process Clause, Trial

• School: Baylor University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: PSC 2302
• Professor: Cash

Document Summary

At the time of its founding, most states had bills of rights: massachusetts body of liberties, virginia declaration of rights (1776), first declaration of rights passed for an independent state, written by george mason. Language of the declaration of rights is like the language of the declaration of independence: virginia declaration of rights serves as an important precursor to the bill of rights, as it reflects. It protected those rights that were considered natural, and those that came out of the old. English legal tradition, particularly rights of due processes and other similar concepts. During the constitutional convention in philadelphia, george mason, who wrote the virginia declaration of. Hamilton believes that because the constitution only granted those powers explicitly listed, then no bill of. Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech or of the press : poses the question of what qualifies as speech.