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." -- Amendment One‚ Bill of Rights‚ United States Constitution Perhaps the most well known of all the amendments to the Constitution‚ the First Amendment contains many of the fundamental freedoms that American citizens hold to be self-evident truths. The Framers of the Constitution‚ coming from a background
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In 1789‚ James Madison wrote the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights included the first 10 amendments telling about all of the freedoms the government and people have. To me‚ having freedom means the right to speak‚ write‚ and practice your religion. The right to state opinions and ideas without being stopped or punished is the freedom of speech. In other countries‚ people are afraid to speak what they think. If the citizens in a country do not say their opinion‚ the government will not know what
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Exploring Further: The Bill of Rights For each situation you need to tell me: 1.Which amendment(s) deals with the issue(s) at hand? 2. What part of the amendment applies? (If it involves an amendment-such as the first that has more than one part) 3. Whether or not the Bill of Rights has been violated in some way. 4. If a part of the Bill of Rights has been violated‚ how? 1. A 20-year-old college student starts his own newspaper that often prints articles making fun of the local mayor.
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against citizens. The Bill of Rights was added to the U.S. Constitution in 1791‚ and it protected the individual freedom of the citizens of the United States. The Bill of Rights was the name given to the first ten amendments in the U.S. Constitution. At first‚ the Bill of Rights only applied to the way that the federal government ran the criminal justice system. In 1868‚ the fourteenth amendment was added and it included all of the states along with the federal government. The Bill of Rights
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The Bill of Rights is the basic human rights of American Citizens. Based on the magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights the United States Bill of Rights was put together by many people. George Mason wrote the first draft of the United States Bill of Rights. James Madison wanted the Bill of Rights to include freedom of religion‚ the first amendment. James Wilson thought that with the Bill of Rights they should give the people more power than the government. Though the Bill of Rights was written
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THE BILL OF RIGHTS Overview 1. What is and why do we have a Bill of Rights? 2. What rights are Filipinos entitled to under Article III of the constitution? Bill of Rights Fundamental characteristic of a republican system It is “a charter of liberties for the individual and a limitation upon the power of the State” Classification of Rights Natural - Based on one’s dignity as a human person Constitutional- Outlined in a constitution’s bill or rights . Cannot
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Bill of Rights Comparison Animal farm is an allegoric novel which has a very interesting story to it. The story is about animals in a farm and the owner “Mr. Jones”. Animal Farm allegorizes the rise to power of the dictator Joseph Stalin. In the movies “Animal Farm” and the Harrison Bergeron film they have rules some rules of equality they share and the bill of rights is a set of rules ensuring our freedom and helping us have some more privileges that can’t
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The Bill of Rights. A list of all the rights that are given to the people of United States. The Bill of Rights expand from amendment one all the way to amendment ten. They all vary from freedom of speech‚ the right to bear arms‚ the right to a speedy trial‚ etc. All these rights are great and many people have opinions on which of these amendment are the best and most important. I personally think that out of all the amendments‚ from one to ten‚ that the first amendment is one of the best rights that
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Bill of Rights and Amendments Paper Francisco Pacheco October 10‚ 2012 Bill of Rights and Amendments Paper The Constitution is the highest form of law in the United States. All other laws come from the Constitution in one way or another. The Constitution provides the foundation for the government of the United States. It creates the most important branches of government which include; Congress‚ the Presidency‚ and the Supreme Court. Even though each state has its own constitution that
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The Bill of Rights and the Supreme Court On September 25‚ 1789‚ the First Congress of the United States therefore proposed to the state legislatures 12 amendments to the Constitution that met arguments most frequently advanced against it. The first two proposed amendments‚ which concerned the number of constituents for each Representative and the compensation of Congressmen‚ were not ratified. Articles 3 to 12‚ however‚ ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures‚ constitute the first
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