answer:Many of the original Founders were concerned (rightly so, apparently!) that a strong centralized government would be automatically “too-strong” from the get-go and would only get stronger. For that reason, in the debates that led to ratification of the Constitution, various measures were promoted which would outline explicitly the various rights to be maintained by the citizens and the states. The people promoting these ideas were generally known as “anti-Federalists”. They wanted a much weaker government to coordinate the states, and insisted on the Bill of Rights as a precondition for their support of the Constitution as it was written.