Answer:
To justify their authority to rule.
The bill of rights was not included in the original constitution because some delegates thought that a federal bill of rights was irrelevant because most state constitutions were already included in some form of guaranteed rights; while others ted out that outlining certain rights would imply that those were the only rights reserved to the people.
I'm sure its.... B) Keeping colonists out of indian lands west of the Appalachian mountains :)
The purchase of Alaska added 586,412 square miles to the U.S.
