Question

What was added to the constitution that listed rights not already in the
Constitution?

Answer 1

Hint: The United States Constitution is the fundamental law of the United States federal system of government and a landmark document of the Western world. The Constitution, the oldest written national constitution still in use, defines the principal organs of government and their jurisdictions, as well as citizens' basic rights.

Complete answer:
The Constitution is not inviolable, and Article Five explains how it can be amended! The term "amendment" refers to a modification or extension of the U.S. Constitution. Only 33 proposals have ever received enough votes to be considered. Twenty-seven of them were ratified and are now part of the Constitution. Only a year after the Constitution went into effect were the first twelve amendments proposed. The states ratified only ten of them.

Each year, hundreds of amendment proposals are introduced in Congress. They became the first 10 amendments to the Constitution, and we call them the Bill of Rights because they define many of the rights guaranteed to U.S. citizens. These are the new rights that were added to the constitution that were not previously included.

The entire Bill of Rights was written to protect rights that the original citizens thought were naturally theirs, such as:
i) Freedom of Religion – The right to practise one's own religion or none at all, free from government influence or compulsion.
ii) Freedom of Expression, Press, Petition, and Assembly – Even unpopular expression is not suppressed or censored by the government.
iii) Privacy – The right to be free of unjustified and unwelcome government intrusion into one's personal and private affairs, papers, and possessions.
iv) Due Process of Law – The right to be treated fairly by the government whenever one's liberty or property is at stake.
v) Equal Justice Under the Law – The right to fair treatment in the eyes of the law, regardless of one's social class.

Note: Added constitutional amendments granting full citizenship rights to slaves and their descendants – at least on paper – took years of resistance and bloody civil war. The 13th Amendment made slavery illegal. The 14th Amendment guarantees African Americans due process and equal legal rights. The right to vote was granted to them by the 15th Amendment. However, it will take another century of struggle for these rights to be fully realised.