Bill of Rights

The 1st Amendment is considered personal because the rights of speech, press, and assembly are all ways that the people act as the ultimate check on the government in the Madisonian Model. these three gaurantees not only are fundamental freedoms, but also indirectly protection against tyranny.

the person can not be tried for the same crime twice.

The Second Amendment states the right to bear arms of the people. The actual text states "A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."

Right of of the accused in a criminal case This amendment was created to clarify citizen's rights in court. It starts off saying that no person can be sent to court for a serious issue without prior approval from the Grand Jury. The only exception is with military and armed force cases. It then says that no man can be tried for the same conviction twice, except if the case is being brought to a different jurisdictional level, if the previous trial closed with mistrial or hung jury, or if evidence suggests fraud in the original trail. The famous saying "I plead the fifth" takes root in the Fifth Amendment, because it gives citizens the right to remain silent. This amendment goes on to state the Miranda Rule. Even though every citizen has rights, they may not always know them. In the past, citizens' lack of knowledge has been used against them, as police and other investigators pick out bits of information that suspects believe must be given. This rule states that the citizens' rights must be read to them before a case begins. ADDED: "No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the Militia, when in actual service in time of War or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation."

because it state that the powers that are not specifically given to the national goverment-as long as they are not specifically denied to the states-are reserved for the states and the people

Mostly because they wanted more freedom, like freedom of speech and things like that.

Because people used to be persecuted and put in jail and even killed for speaking out or against the Crown or other forms of government. Americans have the right to speak their minds. We decided to have a country where people could say what they felt without fear of retribution. Freedom of speech was actually in the Bill of Rights because of the Stamp Act of 1765. The right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances was because of people not being able to "bad mouth" the Crown.

The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. They contain a list of individual rights and liberties, like freedom of speech, religion, and the press. They are rights that all citizens have and they cannot be taken away by the government. The Bill of Rights limits the powers of government. It protects two kinds of rights: rights of the individual, like freedom of speech, and rights of persons accused of crimes, like the right to trial by jury.

1.)gives people who are accused the right to a grand jury hearing2.)protects citezens from double jepordy3.)prohibits self-incrimination4.)the Miranda warning5.)defendents testifying in court.

the second amendment is important because if some terists attack our country anyone in the country can protect or defend themselves with your guns. if we were not allowed to own a gun a lot of us might get killed. Written by Meagan Defense against terrorists is a function that the 2nd Amendment serves, but it was primarily written to guarantee a right that the Founding Fathers believed was inalienable and due every human being. The greatest purposes served is self defense against a common criminal, and insuring the safety of our rights against an overbearing government or tyrannical ruler.

The fifth amendment provides a number of key items for a trial. It protects the rights of an accused as well as the witnesses. To invoke the fifth is to avoid self incrimination. It implies that to answer the question the witness must say something that might subject themselves to criminal prosecution. It means that they can't make a criminal testify as to what he may or may not have done.

The first amendment of the US Constitution guarantees free speech. The first amendment is one of ten amendments within the US Constitution called the Bill of Rights. These ten were part of the original constitution. More amendments were later added.

One of the most important points is to understand that many people fled to America to escape persecution and religious wars in Europe. The Founders very much kept this in mind while constructing the Constitution. They sought to prevent another series of massacres, religious wars, and feuds over papal control like the ones that dominated history from the beginning of the Early Middle Ages to the Thirty Years' War (roughly 700 years or so of death in the name of state-imposed religion and power struggles). Therefore, The Bill of Rights not only enforces guidelines for proper government behavior, it is a means for protecting minority rights from majority oppression, otherwise known as mob rule. For example, the First Amendment's Freedom of Religion is not only a freedom for one to worship as they choose, but it also protects their right not to worship at all, if that is their thing. So, the point being, there is to be no official religion that would relight nationalistic religious fever, and the witch hunts and chaos that often follows. The same applies for every other aspect of the Bill of Rights as well. I believed the Founding Fathers would have shuddered at the thought of having a government invade in a person's privacy and home without a justified reason for doing so (ahem, Patriot Act). Therefore, the minority's rights to liberty, in theory, should be protected from whatever majority is in charge of the government, or from the actual government itself.

It is called the bill of rights because it was protection over the rights that the citizens had.

The 5th Amendment guarantees the following rights: the right to be tried by a grand jury for serious federal crimes, freedom from being tried twice for the same crime, freedom from testifying against oneself (pleading the fifth), the right to due process, which basically means that the government must follow written procedures during a trial and the right to be compensated if the government must take your property for a public project, such as building a highway.

you do not have to implicate your self or be your own witness. There are legal rights to protcet individuals.

The origins of the 5th Amendment can be traced to the origins for the entire Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the US Constitution. The people who gathered in their states to ratify the Constitution suspected that the federal government might try to do things that it was not authorized to do. So, they insisted on a Bill of Rights. The 5th Amendment protects a person from self-incrimination. The protection rests on a basic legal principle: the government bears the burden of proof. Defendants are not obliged to help the government prove its case.

Just a little correction. A Grand Jury finds whether or not a person should be tried for a crime. They do not use grand juries for regular trails. A regular jury is made up of 6 or 12 people. A Grand Jury is typically 24-30 people dependent on population

== == Yes Chalers Cotesworth Pinckney was in favor of the Bill of Rights. So was alot of other framers.

The Third Amendment to the United States Constitution was included to avoid a repeat of the situation before the Revolution when Britain issued the Quartering Acts aimed at strengthening it's grip on the colonies. In a broader sense it is aimed, like many other amendments, at preserving civil liberties.

Article Three, Section 3 of the United States Constitution defines treason and its punishment. Three examples of treason as defined by Article Three, Section 3 are Cramer v. United States, Haupt v. United States and Kawakita v. United States. The first ten Amendments of the U.S. Constitution are jointly known as the Bill of Rights.

"I consider trial by jury as the only anchor ever yet imagined by man, by which a government can be held to the principles of its constitution." - Thomas Jefferson

You believe an eye for an eye unitl you're put in that situation. If they kill those guys, it really doesn't mean much to me. My father is gone. - Michael Jordan on the murderers of his father James.

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