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    The United States Bill of Rights was created in September 25, 1789 and ratified December 15, 1791. The Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments to the Constitution that were established to defend our rights as individuals and as American citizens. The Bill of Rights describes the rights of its people. The first four articles of the amendments deal specifically with the balance of power between the federal government and state government. There were some people who opposed to the Constitution

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    Introduction The Bill of Rights is easily one of the most important sections within constitution, and this is because of the way that it protects the citizens of the United States from the government. One of the items therein the Bill of Rights is the 4th Amendment which states that, “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported

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    What is a bill of rights? What is an amendment? How are the different? A bill of rights is a formality such as the Declaration of Independence and it is the outline of what the citizens feel their born rights are as people of a union. An amendment is the changing or altering of a legal or civil document. Specifically amendments in the United States Constitution include the changing or detailing of what the people need. These two phrases differ in what their purposes are. The bill of rights was set

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    The Bill of Rights 1689 is largely a statement of certain positive rights that its authors considered that citizens and/or residents of a free and democratic society ought to have. It asserts the Subject's right to petition the Monarch and the Subject's right to bear arms for defense. It also sets out certain constitutional requirements where the actions of the Crown require the consent of the governed as represented in Parliament. In this respect, it differs from other "bills of rights," including

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    The Bill of Rights in the United States Constitution has ten amendments in the first part. The 2nd amendment in the Bill of Rights is The Right to Keep and Bear Arms. The 2nd amendment The Right to Keep and Bear Arms states that “A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a Free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed” (USConstitution). The 2nd second amendment allows any United States citizen to own any type of arm. It allows you to be armed

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    The United States constitution and the bill of rights are the cornerstones of the government of the United States. James Madison drafted both documents with the help of others. The Constitution includes the first ten articles of the Bill of Rights. They are two separate important papers that are written for different reasons. At the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, The Constitution was drafted mainly by James Madison with the assistance of “fifty-five delegates; who were a conservative, well-to-do

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    The Bill of Rights were ratified on December 15, 1791. The Bill of Rights is the first 10 amendments in the United States Constitution. The United States Constitution was the basic human rights of America’s citizens as well as the foundation (or basic) laws for the citizens to follow. There were many people who were for and against the whole “freedom” from Britain, Federalists and Anti-federalists. Alexander Hamilton was a Federalist, he did not agree that the Bill of Rights was something that America

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    Initially, we as the people of the United States are believed to have the freedom and liberty we seek for. This is obtained through a list consisting of ten amendments created by the government whom named it the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights is a generally most common name used to describe the rights and laws that we, the citizens of the United States have. It is the basic foundation in which gives us the freedom of speech, freedom of press, and etc. Without it, the people for instance, would

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    The Bill of Rights lists certain freedoms and liberties that are guaranteed to the people of the United States of America. Because these rights are in the Constitution, they are federal laws that apply to everyone in America. To ensure there was no question as to who the Bill of Rights applied to, the Fourteenth Amendment was passed in 1868 giving anyone born in, or a citizen of, the United States the rights guaranteed by the Bill of Rights. The amendment left clauses giving some interpretation

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    The Bill of Rights was passed because concepts such as freedom of religion, speech, equal treatment, and due process of law were deemed so important that, barring a Constitutional Amendment, not even a majority should be allowed to change them. Rule of law is a principle under which all persons, institutions, and entities are accountable to laws that are: publicly promulgated, equally enforced, independently adjudicated, and consistent with international human rights principles. The United States

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