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The Bill of Rights Bargain

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Ratification of the Constitution was secured partly by a Federalist promise to add a bill of rights protecting individual liberties.

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New Hampshire's approval in June 1788 made ratification official; the first ten amendments followed in 1791.

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The Bill of Rights was a political price, not part of the original 1787 text.