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| - It is made up of ten amendments: 1.
* Freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition. 2.
* Right to bear arms 3.
* No forceful quartering of soldiers 4.
* No unreasonable or unlawful searches and seizures 5.
* Due process; self-incrimination 6.
* Rights of the accused 7.
* Trial by jury 8.
* Excessive bails, fines; cruel and unusual punishment (it's pretty obvious that the death penalty is a violation of this) 9.
* Rights not listed retained by the people 10.
* Powers reserved to the states and people
- The Bill of Rights is a historical document that was drafted in 1789 and an item encountered by most players during the quest Stealing Independence.
- Die Bill of Rights kann man während und auch vor der Quest Der Raub der Unabhängigkeit finden.
- The Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution. They guarantee Americans the right to act like Americans. As an American your rights are: 1. The right to agree with the President, especially George W. Bush. 2. The right to bear arms. ( i.e. Anyone can own a pair of bear arms.) 3. The right to kick ass. Just like John Wayne, General George S. Patton and Steven Seagal. 4. The right to take names. Ask Joseph McCarthy. 5. The right to drink, smoke, hunt and drive a hummer. 6. The right to an opinion. 7. The right to shout down and call un-American anyone with whom you disagree.
- The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution (known as the Bill of Rights) spell out those inalienable rights for which the 13 colonies, in 1776, had defied England; and for the greater security of which, 11 years later, they gave up some of the powers of nation-statehood to create a more perfect union. Our founding fathers, fearful of a large, centralized, and authoritarian government, crafted the Bill of Rights to limit the power of government. Many of these rights were already deeply rooted in English common law and in the aspirations and struggles of the peoples of many countries who came to the New World.
- In the United States, the Bill of Rights is the name by which the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution are known. They were introduced by James Madison to the First United States Congress in 1789 as a series of constitutional amendments, and 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 are the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution. They guarantee Americans the right to act like Americans. As an American your rights are: 1. The right to agree with the President, especially George W. Bush. 2. The right to bear arms. ( i.e. Anyone can own a pair of bear arms.) 3. The right to kick ass. Just like John Wayne, General George S. Patton and Steven Seagal. 4. The right to take names. Ask Joseph McCarthy. 5. The right to drink, smoke, hunt and drive a hummer. 6. The right to an opinion. 7. The right to shout down and call un-American anyone with whom you disagree. 8. The right to buy property and build large condos on it. 9. The right to go to church, but only Christian churches. Other religions don't count. 10. The right to watch the Colbert Report.
- The first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution (known as the Bill of Rights) spell out those inalienable rights for which the 13 colonies, in 1776, had defied England; and for the greater security of which, 11 years later, they gave up some of the powers of nation-statehood to create a more perfect union. Our founding fathers, fearful of a large, centralized, and authoritarian government, crafted the Bill of Rights to limit the power of government. Many of these rights were already deeply rooted in English common law and in the aspirations and struggles of the peoples of many countries who came to the New World. The Bill of Rights embodies the most fundamental political, intellectual, and religious rights in the 45 words of the First Amendment. It also forbids arbitrary and lawless governmental actions that threaten life, liberty, or individual property, and has been interpreted to recognize a zone of privacy on which government has no right to intrude. The rights of those suspected of or convicted of crime are spelled out and the criteria for citizenship and enjoyment of these rights and protections are set forth.
- It is made up of ten amendments: 1.
* Freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition. 2.
* Right to bear arms 3.
* No forceful quartering of soldiers 4.
* No unreasonable or unlawful searches and seizures 5.
* Due process; self-incrimination 6.
* Rights of the accused 7.
* Trial by jury 8.
* Excessive bails, fines; cruel and unusual punishment (it's pretty obvious that the death penalty is a violation of this) 9.
* Rights not listed retained by the people 10.
* Powers reserved to the states and people
- The Bill of Rights is a historical document that was drafted in 1789 and an item encountered by most players during the quest Stealing Independence.
- In the United States, the Bill of Rights is the name by which the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution are known. They were introduced by James Madison to the First United States Congress in 1789 as a series of constitutional amendments, and 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. The Bill of Rights prohibits Congress from making any law respecting an establishment of religion, forbids infringement of the right to keep and bear arms, by Congress or citizens in a federal territory and prohibits the federal government from depriving any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law. In federal criminal cases, it requires indictment by grand jury for any capital or "infamous crime", guarantees a speedy public trial with an impartial jury composed of members of the state or judicial Image:200px-Bill of Rights Pg1of1 AC.jpg district in which the crime occurred, and prohibits double jeopardy. In addition, the Bill of Rights states that "the enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people," and reserves all powers not granted to the federal government to the citizenry or States. Most of these restrictions were later applied to the states by a series of decisions applying the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which was ratified in 1868, after the American Civil War. Madison proposed the Bill of Rights while ideological conflict between Federalists and anti-Federalists, dating from the 1787 Philadelphia Convention, 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. The 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). Two additional articles were proposed to the States; only the final ten articles were ratified quickly and correspond to the First through Tenth Amendments to the Constitution. The first Article, dealing with the number and apportionment of U.S. Representatives, never became part of the Constitution. The second Article, limiting the ability of Congress to increase the salaries of its members, was ratified two centuries later as the 27th Amendment. Though they are incorporated into the document known as the "Bill of Rights", neither article establishes a right as that term is used today. For that reason, and also because the term had been applied to the first ten amendments long before the 27th Amendment was ratified, the term "Bill of Rights" in modern U.S. usage means only the ten amendments ratified in 1791. The Bill of Rights plays a central role in American law and government, and remains a fundamental symbol of the freedoms and culture of the nation. One of the original fourteen copies of the Bill of Rights is on public display at the National Archives in Washington DC.
- Die Bill of Rights kann man während und auch vor der Quest Der Raub der Unabhängigkeit finden.
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