Explain the Bill of Rights of the UK and the Bill of Rights of the US respectively and analyze their similarities.
In UK, William and Mary jointly accepted the Bill of Rights (1689)which, excluding any Roman Catholic from the succession, confirmed the principle of parliamentary supremacy and guaranteed free speech within both the House of Lords and the House of Commons. Thus the age of constitutional monarchy, of a monarchy with powers limited by Parliament, began.In US, at the beginning of its government founding, some of the arguments for opposition to the Constitution concerned the absence of a Bill of Rights in the Constitution. In 1789, James Madison introduced in the House of Representatives a series of amendments which later were draft into twelve proposed amendments and sent to the states for ratification. Two of these amendments were not ratified by the states and the others were ratified in 1791 and became the first ten amendments to the constitution—the Bill of Rights. By then, it is agreed, the foundation of the American constitutional system was completed.Both aim to promote democracy and legality. Both are against dictatorship. Both lay a foundations for its country respectively.
