Bill of Rights

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.

reserved powers

Well, there are difference categories of the first amendment.

It is argued that the First Amendment rights of students are allowed to be limited more because students are in a social contract with the school; this means students must give up some rights for the common good in exchange for an education and all that comes with it.

The case Tinker v. Des Moines (a case about free speech), the Supreme Court established that students "do not shed their First Amendment rights at the schoolhouse gate". Yeah, sure, we have first amendment rights, but they're very limited. For example, you may have heard of the "Bong hits for Jesus" case (Morse v. Frederick) where they limited the kid's speech. When it comes to speech, they're also very strict when it comes to obscenity because it disrupts the learning process.

As for religion, there are many cases about it. (Try firstamendmentcenter.org). One example is Santa Fe v. Doe. The students held a vote about whether or not they wanted someone to lead a prayer on the loudspeaker at the football game at their public school. They held a vote and decided to and chose someone to lead it, but since it was public, Supreme Court found that it was a violation of the establishment clause.

There isn't a ton of press in schools that doesn't fall under freedom of speech, but one example is Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier when they allowed the school to limit the speech.

(not addressed in answer: right to peaceably assemble and right to petition the government.)

The Bill of Rights are the first 10 amendments made to the Constitution. They explained the colonists rights.

The part that says "Congress shall pass no law respecting the establishment of a religion, nor inhibiting the free practice thereof"

The first part of this amendment is often called the "Establishment Clause".

The Eighth Amendment (Amendment VIII) to the United States Constitution is the part of the United States Bill of Rights (ratified 1789) prohibiting the federal government from imposing excessive bail, excessive fines or cruel and unusual punishments, including torture. TheU.S. Supreme Courthas ruled that this amendment's Cruel and Unusual Punishment Clause applies to the states. The phrases employed originated in the English Bill of Rights of 1689.

The Bill of right is a good idea because it gives people their rights.

people has rights because of the Bill of Right...

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The Bill of Rights listed the things that the Government was NOT allowed to do.

Article 1

first amendment,it staed the five basic rights that we all get like the right to assemble and relgion in lator years more amendments were ratifide too like the right to remane silent(5th amendment)

In the United States, the term 'liberals' is applied to people who are proponents of the Democratic party, or other minority parties, like the Green Party. 'Conservatives' are people who fall politically at the other end of the spectrum, and typically vote for the Republican party.

It was introduced by James Madison. The original Constitution could not be ratified by the Continental Congress because it failed to protect the fundamental principles of human liberty.

The Bill of Rights is itself a collection of 10 amendments to the Constitution. Because of this, the Bill of Rights does not get amended, but it's possible to pass amendments that cancel other amendments (like the 18th and 21st amendments). So, if someone wanted to change the Bill of Rights, they could (in theory, at least) try to get an amendment passed that modified one of the amendments contained within the Bill of Rights.

8th amendment

The tenth amendment is sometimes called the state sovereignty resolutions, or state sovereignty bills. The powers not delegated to the US Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

The Bill of Rights is part of the Constitution. It is the name for the first ten amendments of the Constitution.