A central idea in the Bill of Rights is that the monarch could only exercise power as stated in the law.
Explanation:
The Bill of Rights is a document drafted in England in 1689, which imposed the English Parliament on Prince William of Orange to succeed King James II.
The main purpose of this text was to recover and strengthen certain parliamentary powers already disappeared or notoriously diminished during the absolutist reign of the Stuarts (Charles II and James II), in order to put a limit to the absolute power of the English kings.
The Bills of Rights list the specific freedoms that governments can not threaten or take away.
The antifederalists believed that without a list of personal freedoms , the new national government might abuse its powers. They worried that it would destroy the liberties won in the Revolution.
The First Amendment is, maybe, the most important of the Bills of Rights. It protects the most basic liberties: freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly and freedom to petition the government to right wrongs.
