The Importance Of The Ten Amendments

When looking back into the future, I think it is a very important moment when the thirteen states came together and decided to add specific individual rights to the Constitution which later became known as the Bill of Rights. The rights that were agreed upon are still apart of us today and for many of us it is one of the first things that we learn in our history classes today. It allows us as citizens of the United States, to have power and to maintain and keep that power. These individual rights are ten amendments and they can all be better characterized. In our first amendment, best know as freedom of speech, is where Congress can’t make any law about your religion or keep you from saying whatever you want. In our second amendment, which has become very popular
In our fourth amendment, its the right to search and seizure, nobody can search your house, your body or any of your person belongings unless proven to the judge that it is necessary. The fifth amendment, provisions concerning prosecution, states that you cant be tried for any serious crime without a Grand Jury to decide if there is enough evidence for a trial. And if the Grand Jury decides that you are innocent, you cannot be tried again. Therefore the sixth amendment is the right to a speedy and public trial, if you are arrested you have the right to a speedy trial and the government can’t keep you in jail without trying you. Also, in this amendment the trial has to public so that everyone is aware of what is taken place. In our seventh amendment it is plain and simple, you have the right to a trial by jury. In our eight amendment, the government cant make you pay more than is reasonable in bail or in fines and the government cant order you to have cruel and unusual punishment. The last two amendments give us even more