Read the following excerpt from The Objections of the Hon. George Mason to the Proposed Federal Constitution: Addressed to the Citizens of Virginia, written in 1787.There is no declaration of rights: and the laws of the general government being paramount to the laws and constitutions of the several states, the declarations of rights, in the separate states, are no security.

George Mason objects that the proposed Constitution lacks a declaration of rights and that state declarations would not protect citizens if federal law overruled state law. A bill of rights is a formal declaration of citizens’ rights and protections, so the best answer is “a bill of rights.” Congress, a president, and a military are parts of government, not declarations of individual rights.

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