Introduced twelve amendments to Congress. The first two amendments were about the size and pay of Congress and slavery. The final ten would become known as the Bill of Rights. These amendments guaranteed them the right of assembly, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom to bear arms, freedom of fair trial, and civil and criminal legal rights. It also protected them from excessive bails and fines, quartering of soldiers, searches and arrests, and provided for a strong state government (James Madison, 1789,