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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Foreign-Born American Founder James Wilson, August 9, 1787 Proposed Amendment ... The first ten amendments that we have come to call the “Bill of Rights” have a lot going for them.