While it is generally believed to apply to all levels of government, in actuality, the Supreme Court has never determined if the Bill of Rights applies to all states, as well as the federal government. The powers of the Bill of Rights were expanded to support the Fourteenth Amendment's wording that no state could withhold the rights outlined in the Bill of Rights.
Really it applies to them all but it depends which right you are refereeing to
federal
The Bill of Rights is not applied only to the federal government. The Bill of Rights is applied to all United States citizens and designed to express all freedoms the citizens rightfully possess.
Really it applies to them all but it depends which right you are refereeing to
limit the power of the government
Government Issue, to describe items issued by the US government to military personnel. The acronym was applied, jokingly at first, to the personnel themselves. Later it was applied seriously, as with the GI Bill of Rights.
It does not say what the government CAN do- it says what people have a right to do, and what the government CANNOT do.
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the english bill of rights didnt have the right to bare arms but our bill of rights did thats how the english bill of rights inluenced our government.
executive branch
It protects us from acts of government
bill of rights,the right to vote,