Answer:
Protects individuals from the government
Explanation:
Even though James Madison was originally against the Bill of Rights, he saw that to get enough people on board with the Constitution it was necessary. He became one of its strongest advocates and promoted it as a way to protect individuals from government encroachment on their individual rights. And plus the answer below is wrong.
Just because slavery ended did not mean segregation, prejudice, and hate did. Many people did not like that they were granted these rights and segregated them, based on the "separate but equal" principle. The South is famous for its Jim Crow laws that segregated black Americans, but segregation existed everywhere. Groups such as the kkk formed, etc.
Answer:
The Compromise of 1850 was made to stop the disputes over slavery in new territories added to the United States in the wake of the Mexican-American War. It admitted California as a free state, left Utah and New Mexico to decide for themselves whether to be a slave state or a free state, defined a new Texas-New Mexico boundary, and made it easier for slave owners to recover runways under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
