Be honest I really don't care that it is horrible. All men are created equal, all men are born with rights and deserve those rights earned when they are born. The rights your given when your born are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. To protect those rights from the government and to limit the power of the government enlighten thinkers made the Bill of Rights witch are then first ten amendments in the constitution. Years passed and the Southern states depended on slaves even more now and wanted to secede from the North witch began the Civil War. Natural rights are the rights that every man deserves because all men are equal, this thought came from an important man John Locke in the enlightment era. John Locke protected the people even better by creating the checks and balances system this was to make sure the government didn’t have to much power. Enlightment was a time when many intelligent thinkers made people question there beliefes and turn to science and reason to explain human and universe behavior. To be sure that people are protected of there natural rights the Bill of Rights was created and added to the constition. The Bill of rights is a series of legislative article that limit the governments power. On December 15th 1791 the first 10 amendments were added to the constitution. The writers of the constitution like John Hancock knew that the constition wasn’t perfect and they wanted to make a way for the constitution be able to change with ease but not to easy, so they added amendments. The first 8 amendments spell out the personal liberties of the people and the 9th and 10th limit the power of the government. Limitng the power of the government and giving the people there natural rights is heavily important in the way life is today. The Civil war was a time in Americas history where the North and South were at war with each other. The South were pro slavery and the North were against slavery. With the South agricultural environment they depended on slaves to do there labor work and the North owned the factories and didn’t need slaves. Abraham Lincoln was the president at the time of the Civil War and wanted the states to stop being at war. The South started the war by attacking Fort Sumter and Lincoln reacted by calling in state armies suck as militia to come get back the federal property. The North won witch meant an end to slavery, the states to the North of the Mason Dixon line were already free states and had already abolished slavery