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The Bill of Rights protects Americans' basic freedoms against the power of the federal government. Some examples are:

  • Freedom of speech, press, religion, peaceable assembly, and to petition the government
  • Right for the people to keep and bear arms, as well as to maintain a militia
  • Protection from quartering of troops
  • Protection from unreasonable search and seizure
  • Due process, double jeopardy, self-incrimination, private property
  • Trial by jury and other rights of the accused
  • Civil trial by jury
  • Prohibition of excessive bail, as well as cruel and unusual punishment
  • Protection of rights not specifically enumerated in the Bill of Rights
  • Powers of states and people
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