American Revolutionaries pointed to the English Bill of Rights of 1689 to support arguments against the Crown and made bills of rights into one of the most potent political genres of the age. But while the U.S. Constitution was being debated and ratified in 1787 and 1788, prominent framers argued that a federal bill of rights was unnecessary and even dangerous, a throwback to English monarchy completely out of place in a republic and one that threatened to augment governmental power rather than limit it. In 1789, one of those skeptical framers, James Madison, helped draft a series of amendments that became known, only many decades later, as the “Bill of Rights.” This chapter revisits this important debate, exploring the persistence of the genre of bills of rights in light of new historical, political, cultural, and legal studies that posit a persistence of monarchism in the age of the American Revolution.
美国革命者引用1689年英国的《权利法案》来支持反对国王的论点，并使《权利法案》成为那个时代最有力的政治流派之一。但是，当美国宪法在1787年和1788年被辩论和批准时，一些著名的制宪者认为，联邦权利法案是不必要的，甚至是危险的，这是向英国君主制的倒退，在一个共和国是完全不合适的，它有可能扩大而不是限制政府权力。1789年，持怀疑态度的制宪者之一詹姆斯·麦迪逊(James Madison)帮助起草了一系列修正案，这些修正案在几十年后被称为“权利法案”(Bill of Rights)。本章回顾了这一重要的辩论，根据新的历史、政治、文化和法律研究，探讨了权利法案类型的持久性，这些研究假设了美国独立战争时期君主制的持久性。
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