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They made voting possible so we can chose our representatives
At the time of the writing of the Constitution, there was no formal legal power behind it. Representatives from each of the individual states met to discuss improvements to the Articles of Confederation and ultimately produced a new document, which individual states later chose to ratify.
The framers of the Constitution, for the most part, believed that a strong central government was necessary. There were several anti federalists that did not believe that ideal.
Alexander Hamilton promised a Bill of Rights would be added to the Constitution, which would be ten amendments promising basic rights to the people. James Madison went through hundreds of proposals and chose ten that related to the things England deprived Americans from that eventually led to the war, and added them to the constitution as the "Bill of Rights"