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Haylie Beall - The Bill of Rights
The United States Constitution and the First Ten Amendments
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- Civil Liberties The legal constitutional protections against government. Although our civil liberties are formally set down in the Bill of Rights, the courts, police, and legislatures define their meaning.
- Bill Of Rights The first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, which define such basic liberties as freedom of religion, speech, and press and guarantee defendants rights
- Amendment 1 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 redre
- Amendment 2 A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of the free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
- Amendment 3 No Solider shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
- Amendment 4 The rights 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 issues, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particular
- Amendment 5 No person shall be held to answer to a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, expect in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public dan
- Amendment 6 In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to
- Amendment 7 In Suits at common law where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise re-examined in any court of the United States.
- Amendment 8 Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.
- Amendment 9 The enumeration in the Constitution, certain rights, shall not be constructed to deny or disparage others retained by the people
- Amendment 10 The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people
