Need help with the Bill of Rights and Constitution!?!?

It seems your question is multifaceted. I have included a great website for you. It goes into the many facets of your question.

I hope some of this information helps...........

1)The Convention Timeline

2)Answers From the FAQ

3)The fight for a bill of rights

The delegates were at the end of the convention - they had worked on the Constitution for months on end, and were tired and ready to return home. In addition, few felt that Mason's idea that such a thing could be worked out in just a few hours, considering all the debate that had gone into even minor details, was possible. Above all, however, was the feeling that adding a bill of rights could open up discussions that could bring the convention to a stand-still; perhaps even break it up. For example, how to add a provision that all men are born equal and free with the specter of slavery looming over the nation? Mason and Gerry were rejected. Both Mason and Gerry ultimately refused to sign the final version over the issue.

So important was the addition of a Bill of Rights that one was proposed even before the last two states ratified the Constitution; in December, 1791, the Bill of Rights were added to the end of the Constitution, placing some of the strongest protections of individual rights since before or since into force on a national scale.

4)Constitutional Convention

The First Continental Congress met in Philadelphia from Sept. 5 to Oct. 26, 1774, to protest the Intolerable Acts.

There are 27 Amendments to the Constitution. The first ten are collectively known as the Bill of Rights. The Constitution was in serious trouble after it was written. It became apparent that without some form of explicit guarantees of individual and states rights, there would not be enough votes to pass it. So these ten (and two others rejected) were submitted to the states for ratification. Remember, until the Declaration debate, the colonies did not envision a centralized government beyond their own legislatures. Each delegate viewed his own state as his country. They knew that they had to fight together to defeat the British and it took a while for them to realize that they would have to stay together after independence was won. But the Constitution's predecessor, The Articles of Confederation, failed spectacularly.