<span>Muckrakers of the 19th century can be compared to some, but not all modern day journalists. Muckrakers were famous for "digging up dirt" on people and exposing them. Today's journalists do similar things, especially in the current political environment. However, today's journalists have it easier with the inventions of social media and the Internet. It's much easier to "dig up dirt" on people and expose them.</span>
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.
Declaration of what? united states? to reunite the states