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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof, or abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
The first 10 of these amendments are known as the Bill of Rights and relate to personal and individual rights. The Bill of Rights was ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures on December 15, 1791.
Ninth Amendment [Non-Enumerated Rights (1791)] (see explanation) Tenth Amendment [Rights Reserved to States or People (1791)] (see explanation)
The first ten amendments to the Constitution make up the Bill of Rights. James Madison wrote the amendments as a solution to limit government power and protect individual liberties through the Constitution.
Original Ten Amendments: The Bill of Rights. Passed by Congress September 25, 1789. Ratified December 15, 1791. Amendment I. Freedoms, Petitions, Assembly
Thomas Jefferson wrote to James Madison advocating a Bill of Rights: "Half a loaf is better than no bread. If we cannot secure all our rights, let us secure what we can." First Amendment.
Read Full Text and Annotations on The Bill of Rights The Ten Original Amendments to the Constitution of the United States at Owl Eyes
The ratified Articles (Articles 3–12) constitute the first 10 amendments of the Constitution, or the U.S. Bill of Rights. In 1992, 203 years after it was proposed, Article 2 was ratified as the 27th Amendment to the Constitution.
The Bill of Rights is the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution. It spells out Americans’ rights in relation to their government. It guarantees civil rights and liberties to the individual—like freedom of speech, press, and religion.
protect the basic principles of human liberty. The U.S. Bill of Rights was influenced by George Mason’s 1776 Vir-ginia Declaration of Rights, the 1689 English Bill of Rights, works of the Age of Enlightenment pertaining to natural rights, and earlier English political documents such as the Magna Carta (1215).