Many supporters and opponents of the proposed amendments to the federal Constitution known as the “Bill of Rights” considered them a diversion from substantive changes to the Constitution. Aedanus Burke (1743–1802), an anti-federalist Congressman from South Carolina, asserted on August 15, 1789 that they were “little better than whipsyllabub, frothy and full of wind” and were like “a tub thrown out to a whale, to secure the freight of the ship and its peaceable voyage.”