The few individual rights addressed in the original Constitution included Article I, Section 9 concerning the Writ of Habeas Corpus, Article III, Section 2 providing for the right of trial by jury and Article IV, Section 2 limiting the ability of states discriminating in favor of its citizens in respect to certain fundamental rights. ... The Bill of Rights was introduced by James Madison and became the first 10 Constitutional Amendments. ... The Constitution possessed many solutions to the troubles of the world's government, and its greatest feature was its ability to make amendment...

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It has the following key features: (i) It is a written document which has its origins in John Locke's notion of - Limited government' (a) laws are written and knowable (b) the property rights of citizens take precedent over government (ii) Madisonian Model rests on federal government with three distinctive branches: • the Legislature (House of Representatives and Senate is Congress) • the Executive (President plus executive departments) • the Judiciary (the most influenti...

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This remedy was the Tenth Amendment which states: "The powers not delegated to the United Stated by the Constitution, nor provided by the States, are reserved to the States respectfully, or to the people." ...

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