Question

Bills of rights "have no application to constitutions professedly founded upon the power of the people, and executed by their immediate representatives and servants. Here, in strictness, the people surrender nothing, and as they retain everything, they have no need of particular reservations."–Alexander Hamilton, Federalist No. 84

Hamilton argues in this quote that

Answer 1

a list of rights in the Constitution is unnecessary because the government's power is already limited

a list of rights should be added to the Constitution before the state legislatures vote whether to ratify

representatives