The Bill of Rights (Amendments 1 - 10) – National Center for . . . 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 Bill of Rights: A Transcription | National Archives 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
List of the 27 Amendments - Constitution of The United States 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
The US Constitution | Amendments - Bill of Rights Institute 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
The Bill of Rights - National Archives Amendment I 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 Gove rnment for a redress of grievances Amendment II
United States Bill of Rights - Wikipedia The United States Bill of Rights comprises the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution It was proposed following the often bitter 1787–88 debate over the ratification of the Constitution and written to address the objections raised by Anti-Federalists
United States Bill of Rights - Wikisource, the free online library In the United States, the Bill of Rights is the term for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution These amendments explicitly limit the Federal government's powers, protecting the rights of the people by preventing Congress from abridging freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of assembly, freedom of religious