What exactly is the bill of rights??

Question

i want to know more about it what is it saying. don't use too many big words!!!

Answer 1

The Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States of America.  They were intended to limit the power of the government in private citizen's lives.  The Amendments cover:

1st:  Freedom of Speech, Press, Religion and Petition



2nd:  Right to keep and bear arms



3rd:  Conditions for quarters of soldiers

You can read more about them at the website I reference.



4th:  Right of search and seizure regulated



5th:  Provisons concerning prosecution



6th:  Right to a speedy trial, witnesses, etc.



7th:  Right to a trial by jury



8th:  Excessive bail, cruel punishment



9th:  Rule of construction of Constitution



10th:  Rights of the States under Constitution

Answer 2

My Gas bill is never right...

Answer 3

Don't worry about it..........

We don't use it ( follow it) anymore in this country.....

We don't believe in following the Constitution ether.

But just incase you really don't know the answer there is a link:

Answer 4

http://www.earlyamerica.com/earlyamerica...

Answer 5

Easy answer: The first 10 amendments of the U.S Constition.

Answer 6

It astonishes me to find ... [that so many] of our countrymen ... should be contented to live under a system which leaves to their governors the power of taking from them the trial by jury in civil cases, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, freedom of commerce, the habeas corpus laws, and of yoking them with a standing army. This is a degeneracy in the principles of liberty ... which I [would not have expected for at least] four centuries. — Thomas Jefferson to William Stephens Smith, 1788.

A bill of rights [will] guard liberty against the legislative as well as the executive branches of the government. — Thomas Jefferson to Francis Hopkinson, 1789.

The [first] Ten Amendments to the Constitution create no rights of the people at all, nor should they, since the rights alluded to already exist antecedent to the Constitution, which merely recognizes them, and to the government, which was charged with safeguarding them. That government has failed, at all levels, in this charge is further proof of its blanket illegitimacy. The Ten Amendments were really a Bill of Limitations on the powers of created government, and that is exactly how they were worded. — Grugyn Silverbristle: Parochialism, Politics of the Counter-revolution.

Answer 7

Just think of the Constitution, it is the original first ten amendments to it.  They include freedom of speech, the right to bear arms and so on

Answer 8

The Bill of Rights constitutes the first 10 amendments to the Constitution.

By remembering the tyranny, and the violation of civil rights by the British during the revolution, our forefathers demanded a "Bill of Rights" that would spell out our freedoms, and immunities of individual citizens..

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