Why the Bill of Rights Was Added to the Constitution. At the Constitutional Convention of 1787, delegates rejected a motion made by George Mason, author of the Virginia Declaration of Rights (1776), to preface the Constitution of the United States with a bill of rights.s it finally emerged from Congress, the proposed Bill of Rights consisted of twelve amendments and was offered to the states for ratification. The first two proposed amendments were never ratified by the states.
A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes is a popular-science book on cosmology (the study of the universe) by British physicist Stephen Hawking. It was first published in 1988. Hawking wrote the book for nonspecialist readers with no prior knowledge of scientific theories.
He doesn't have ALS but rather another form of neuro-muscular dystrophy related to it. I wouldn't exactly call him lucky - he is completely paralyzed except for his eyes. Hawking is definitely more famous than he probably would be if he didn't have his condition, but he is still very smart. He's done a lot of work with singularities and black holes, and discovered that black holes actually aren't completely black. The type of radiation they give off is called Hawking Radiation.