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Bill of Rights was one of the first essential compromises on the part of the Federalists in order to get the Constitution ratified by the states. Jeffrey St. John writes, for example, of the delicate balance of James Madison, a Federalist, in hammering out one agreement. The Anti-Federalists called for a ban on a peacetime professional army, but Madison offered "the Second Amendment, giving citizens the right to keep and bear arms, and the Third Amendment, banning the

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