Note: The following text is a transcription of the first ten amendments to the Constitution in their original form. These amendments were ratified December 15, 1791, and form what is known as the ...

The First Amendment is widely considered to be the most important part of the Bill of Rights. It protects the fundamental rights of conscience—the freedom to believe and express different ideas ...

The most popular of these proposed amendments, which became the Bill of Rights in 1791, was a protection of state power. The new Tenth Amendment stated: “The powers not delegated to the United ...

Hence, the Tenth Amendment (as well as the Ninth) enunciates a rule of construction that warns against interpreting the Bill of Rights to imply the existence of powers in the national government ...

The first ten Amendments to the Constitution protect all of the basic freedoms of Americans and are known as the Bill of Rights. The most famous are perhaps the first, second and fifth Amendments.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – A proposed amendment to the Arkansas Constitution would create a bill of rights for those impacted by a violent or sex crime. House Joint Resolution 1021 would create a ...

On December 15, 1791, the Bill of Rights was ratified by Virginia, allowing the passage of the first ten amendments to the Constitution. Virginia was the tenth of fourteen states to ratify the ...