Because the Congress wanted to increase spending to help the poor and unemployed. The Whip Inflation Now campaign was urged by President Ford to combat inflation in the U.S. by increasing personal savings and having disciplined spending habits in combination with public measures.
In which time period exactly?
Some believed that the Constitution did not give the new federal government the ability to restrict inherent rights, so no list of those rights was necessary. Others worried that if the rights were listed, they would invariably forget some and the list would ever be incomplete. Finally, the argument was that the states each had their own constitutions, too, and that rights were best protected at a state level.
