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The Bill of Rights to the United States Constitution What does the term “amendmean?

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The Bill of Rights to the  United States  Constitution 

What does the  term “amend”

mean? 

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The Bill of Rights• First ten amendments to the United States 

Constitution

• Introduced by James Madison to the First  United States Congress in 1789

• Came into effect on December 15, 1791,  when they had been ratified by three‐fourths 

of the States

• Thomas Jefferson was the main proponent of  the Bill of Rights 

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The Bill of Rights foundationsThe Bill was influenced by George 

Mason's 1776 Virginia Declaration of  Rights, the 1689 English Bill of 

Rights, works of the Age of  Enlightenment pertaining to natural 

rights, and earlier English political  documents such as Magna Carta

(1215).

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James Madison

Thomas Jefferson

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Necessary for the new government?• Madison proposed the Bill of Rights while 

ideological conflict between Federalists

and  anti‐Federalists

threatened the overall 

ratification of the new national Constitution

• It largely responded to the Constitution's  influential opponents, including prominent 

Founding Fathers, who argued that the  Constitution should not be ratified because it 

failed

to protect the basic principles of  human liberty

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Federalists• Men and women who supported the 

ratification of the US Constitution

• Favored a strong

and central  government

• Believed that a federal government  would provide stability

and protection

to the fledgling nation

• Were opposed

by the Anti Federalists 

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Anti Federalists

• Feared

a large strong central  government

• Believed in self‐determination

• State and individual rights should be  first, not the rights of a large 

government

• Ultimately compromised on the  Constitution because of the Bill of Rights

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The First Amendment

to the United States  Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of 

Rights that expressly prohibits the United States  Congress from making laws:

• Prohibit the free exercise of religion• Laws that infringe the freedom of 

speech• Infringe the freedom of the press• Limit the right to peaceably assemble• Limit the right to petition the 

government for a redress of grievances

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The Second Amendment

to the United States  Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of 

Rights that declares:

• “a well regulated Militia, being  necessary to the security of a free 

State, the right of the people to keep  and bear Arms, shall not be 

infringed.”

• This is the most hotly contested of  the Amendments 

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The Third Amendment

to the United States  Constitution prohibits:

• In peacetime, the quartering

of  soldiers in private homes without 

the owner's consent

• It makes quartering legally  permissible

in wartime only

• And then only in accordance with  law

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The Fourth Amendment

to the United States  Constitution which: 

•Guards against  unreasonable searches  and seizures• It was ratified as a  response to the abuse of  the writ of assistance

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The Fifth Amendment

of the United States  Constitution protects: 

• Against abuse of government  authority in a legal procedure

• Its guarantees stem from  English common law which 

trace back to the Magna Carta in 1215 

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The

Sixth Amendment

to the United States  Constitution sets forth rights: 

• Related to criminal prosecutions  in federal courts

• The Supreme Court has applied  the protections of this 

amendment to the states through  the Fourteenth Amendment's 

Due Process Clause

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The Seventh Amendment

of the United States  Constitution codifies the right to:

•A jury trial in certain  civil trials

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The Eighth Amendment

to the United States  Constitution which prohibits: 

• The federal government from  imposing excessive bail

• Excessive fines• Cruel and unusual punishments

• The phrases employed are taken  from the English Bill of Rights of 

1689

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The Ninth Amendment

to the United States  Constitution

•Addresses rights of the  people that are not  specifically spelled out  in the Constitution

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The Tenth Amendment

of the United States  Constitution 

• The Tenth Amendment restates  the Constitution's principle of 

Federalism by providing that  powers not granted to the 

National government nor  prohibited to the states are 

reserved to the states and to the  people