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When the Second Constitutional Convention wrote the Constitution in 1787, there was a controversy between the federalists and the anti-federalists surrounding whether or not to have a Bill of Rights. The anti-federalists claimed that a bill of rights was needed that listed the guaranteed rights that the government could never take away from a person i.e. “inalienable rights.” A Bill of Rights was eventually deemed necessary, and has worked for over 210 years. There are many reasons why the ten amendments are still valid to this day, and the best examples are the First Amendment, concerning the freedom of religion, the Fifth Amendment, and the Sixth Amendment.

To further strengthen the rights of the people, The Bill of Rights was ratified on December 15, 1791. With only the first ten amendments, it is no accident that two amendments, 9 and 10, specifically define the Constitutions purpose to protect rights, given to the government from the people; and the powers of the government are “only those delegated to it by the Constitution on behalf of the people” (Spalding, Page 145).

The United States Constitution was ratified and made law September 17, 1789. For Americas yet-to-be history the Framers knew the Constitution had to have a way to grow and change with the people, and their needs. This paper will cover the amendment process, the need for the Bill of Rights, how the Bill of Rights has affected America, what the Bill of Rights have granted American’s, discuss the later amendments, and what effect the later amendments have had.

The Bill of Rights became a very important document in the United States Constitution in order to ensure United States citizens equal protection of their rights and liberties. The main objective of the Bill of rights was to place limits on the national government creating an understanding and dividing the powers between the states and the national government. Not all the powers were granted to the national government however not all the powers were prohibited to the states. As stated by Ginsberg, Lowi, Weir & Tolbert (2015) the bill of rights consists of 10 amendments incorporated in the U.S constitution. It is important to note that each amendment contains a legal court case in which the supreme court as well as the government have ruled and have ignored or have protected the rights of the individuals involved.

The Constitution of the United States was made through compromises that not everyone agreed on but they came to an agreement on what they thought it should be. Before all of the fifty states were founded there was not a Bill of Rights, it was not until the new government was up and running before the Bill of Rights was added. The reason for this was that the framers of the constitution did not realize that the Bill of Rights was necessary to have at the time. A certainly important choice that was made was how our government was to be

The constitution is the foundation of America. It has the country’s beliefs and rights within it. In 1791, the Bill of Rights was added to the constitution because the Anti Federalists refused to ratify the constitution till the Bill was added. The Bill of Rights not only guarantees citizens rights but also it ensures a limited government. The 14th amendment was later created in 1868 which guaranteed due process of law and equal protection under the law. The Bill of Rights and 14th amendment was made in hope that the government would learn their limitations and wouldn’t interfere with a person’s rights. It was basically the rules set for the government to follow. However as time goes by, the effectiveness of the Bill of Rights has lessened.

The Bill of Rights was originally written due to issues many states brought forth concerning the power of the federal government to restrict personal liberties. These ten amendments were meant to enshrine certain liberties into the constitution (“Bill”). Each amendment in the Bill of Rights exists to ensure individuals maintain freedoms deemed important enough to directly block the government from taking. The

In the book Courting Disaster: How the Supreme Court is Usurping the Power of Congress and the People, it sets out to identify how our government has changed and how these changes affect us and our laws. Pat Robertson wants the people to see how the Supreme Court is abusing power. Robertson shows how the federal judges are not only abusing their power but reaching beyond the power they are given. Thomas Jefferson once cautioned that, “to consider the judges as the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions” are “a very dangerous doctrine indeed” and “one that would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy” (Robertson, Courting disaster: How the supreme court is usurping the power of Congress and the people, 2004).

The historical roots of the American Bill of Rights come from two concepts: liberty and republicanism. Both liberty and republicanism are intertwined. At their roots, they are regularized constructs designed to achieve a

There are many Amendments in The Bill of Rights and all of the rights are to the constitution to the United States. The purpose of the The Bill of Rights is to protect individuals liberties. The Bill of Rights was written in 1789 and was ratified in December 15, 1791, James Madison wrote The Bill of Rights and he was the one to guide it through the New Constitution.

     Is our Bill of Rights necessary? Does it put a limit on our government, or on our liberty? Do these ten amendments hold the same meaning today as they did two-hundred and fourteen years ago? Are they now or have they ever been relevant? These questions were debated by our nation’s founding fathers in the eighteenth century and continue to be debated by the historians, academics, and political scientists today. Over the course of the last two centuries, its meaning has been twisted and stretched by the interpretation and misinterpretation of our legislature and, most of all, by the Supreme Court wielding its power of judicial review. It is my belief that these rights were and are absolutely essential to

The Bill of Rights which is composed of the first 10 amendments of the constitution included protections for both basic individual liberties and for the states. (Keene, 2011). What started as 13 independent “nations” united as one, “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” PREAMBLE (Keene

"The bill of rights is a document that clearly states in right in which American citizens are given. The bill of right is very crucial document that throughout history helped to settle court. It a straightforward document that outlines what rights have been granted. Making up the first ten amendments the bill of rights is the frame work of the constitution. Written by James Madison the bill of rights was his response to several states want to protect their personal liberties and individuals rights. But with the creation of this constitution there was still controversy between the federalist and the anti-federalist about what was entailed in the document. The federalist felt the bill would suppress the power of the government. They felt that the bill gave too much power to people taking way the control the government could exhibit. They felt this way due to the limits it placed on government. For example the natural right of an individual to speak and worship was seen as too radical in the eyes of the founders. But the controversy did not spill over into congress and was passed. Now this document is the outline

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

The Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the Constitution, were important for a number of reasons. The first being that all the individual states had some form of a citizens’ rights declaration thus there was a general consensus that the new Constitution should contain one as well (Foner, 2014, p. 267). In fact, the Constitution was ratified by many states under the assumption that the Bill of Rights would soon emerge from the newly developed Congress (Van Cleave). The Bill of Rights are, essentially, a series of clarifications of the “unalienable rights” mentioned in the Declaration of Independence (Foner, 2014, p. 267). The Constitution erected the structure and inner workings of the government, whereas the Bill of Rights elucidated