Creating the United States

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Thomas Jefferson was a strong supporter of supplementing the Constitution with a bill of rights. Jefferson thought they would give an independent judiciary the means to curb any “tyranny” of the executive or legislative branches. Jefferson feared the “inconveniencies of the want of a Declaration” of Rights “by way of supplement.”
Thomas Jefferson was a strong supporter of supplementing the Constitution with a bill of rights. Jefferson thought they would give an independent judiciary the means to curb any “tyranny” of the executive or legislative branches. Jefferson feared the “inconveniencies of the want of a Declaration” of Rights “by way of supplement.”