These investigations have uncovered a wealth of information regarding the circumstances that led to the amendment’s inclusion in the Bill of Rights and the specific concerns it was designed to ...

Trump's Bible jumps from the original Constitution to the Bill of Rights and then to the Pledge of Allegiance, skipping constitutional amendments 11-27. That's means Trump's Bible is missing the ...

The declaration in the English Bill of Rights that “cruel and unusual punishments ... in America before the drafting of the Eighth Amendment, would prohibit torturous punishments such as ...

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 ...

A careful study of Justice Thomas’s passionate yet reasoned dissents charts a proper course to restore the Second Amendment to its esteemed place in our Bill of Rights. San Francisco law ...

Before the Civil War, states didn’t necessarily have to follow the provisions stated in the Bill of Rights; only Congress had to. The 14th Amendment changed that. “This second sentence of the ...

Eventually, the amendment would be interpreted to apply most provisions in the Bill of Rights to the states as well as the national government. And finally, the Fourteenth Amendment introduced the ...

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 ...