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Essay On The Bill Of Rights

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The first ten Amendments of the United States Constitution are referred to as the Bill of Rights, which put restrictions on the authority and power of the federal government. The limitations signified in the Bill of Rights are to protect and preserve ones natural rights of liberty such as freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly, association and the right to bear arms. It was intended upon by the Founding Father’s of the Constitution to safeguard American citizen’s rights, ensuring that no single person, or government, had the ability to obtain excessive power. The Bill of Rights preserves an important role in American history as it the document that summarizes the rights and liberties of the American citizens. However, it seems the interpretation …show more content…

African Americans were the minority group that were discriminated against the most as they were granted the least amount of legal rights because according to Edmund Randolph, slaves were “not… constituent members of our society”, therefore the text described in the Constitution regarding freedoms and liberties was prohibited by any slave. Ultimately none of the Bill of Rights was applicable to African Americans because they were demoralized by society so that it was assumed they would not reap any benefits of the Constitution (it wouldn’t be until years later that the amendments would be included into the Constitution giving them the same rights as their fellow Americans). Slavery was a practice created by state law and any state that commenced the abolition was undoubtedly not prohibited from doing so according to the Constitution. In retrospect, a decent job was done to strengthen “slave power” of the South with the establishment of the Three- Fifths Clause, a black man would count as only three-fifths as much as a white man, which was the equality of the states in the Senate and so

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