Bill of Rights

excessive bail, excessive fines, and cruel and unusual punishments.

It was adopted because the constitution didnt include more important rights

The Bill of Rights was written as part of the US Constitution during the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The US Constitution was adopted on September 17, 1787. The office of President would have been created as part of the US Constitution, so the President in office when the Bill of Rights went into effect was President George Washington.

...The powers of state governments.

The first ten amendments make up the bill of rights

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During the American Revolution, British soldiers forced Colonists to house them in what was called the Quartering Act. As a direct reaction to this violation of the Colonists' rights, they demanded that there be a provision in the US Constitution prohibiting the use of civilian houses for the quartering of soldiers ever again. Since 1789, it has not been a serious issue.

The Ninth Amendment was enacted to ensure that a particular rule of statutory interpretation is not applied: expressio unius est exclusio alterius (which means something like, the expression of one is the exclusion of all others). Without the Ninth Amendment, people could try to argue that because the Bill of Rights lists certain rights of the People, those are our onlyrights.

Although some people have looked to the Ninth Amendment as a way for the federal courts to recognize individual rights not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution (under a theory that there are basic human rights or that there are certain god given rights), the Supreme Court has been extremely reticent to do so. Off the top of my head, I can't think of any substantive rights justified using the Ninth Amendment.

It guarantees the right to a speedy and fair trial

There are only 10 amendments in the Bill of Rights and all of them are not implied.

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.or in simpler terms, the right to bear arms.

The First Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America allows citizens:

The Right of the Religion they choose.

The Freedom of the Press.

The Right to Free Speech.

The Right to Assemble.

NOTE: The First Amendment is also know as the Rights as documented in the "Bill of Rights."

The 5th amendment addresses the right of a suspect against self-incrimination and the 6th amendment guarantees the right to a speedy trial. Neither of these amendments are applicable to a suspect when they are ordered to appear at a "line-up" viewing.

The House of Representatives initiates bills for raising revenue and all impeachment proceedings. The Senate is not permitted to do either. In the matter of revenue bills, it may make changes in bills raised and passed in the House and send them back to the House for re-consideration, but these changes are more like suggestions. The Senate may not initiate impeachment proceedings, but it serves as the jury for the trial of the person who has been impeached.

December 15, 1791

They person who helped write it was Patrick Henery

the Bill of Rights did support the rights of individuals, though included protection legally to only landowning white men. It did not involve women and African Americans, until later on causing more Amendments from Constitution and Supreme Court Cases to include the same rights for ALL citizens in the U.S.

It somewhat stands in the way of some people's ideas that the US could be made safe by an effort to take away guns from everyone except police and the military. That's probably the main con.

On the pro side, it is designed to prevent tyranny. Its role in preventing or increasing crime is so hotly debated that most people lose sight of the fact that ordinary crime had nothing to do with the reason it was passed. There are even people now who think the Second Amendment was related to hunting. For what it's worth, it has played a role in helping potential victims of crime arm themselves to deter or defend against criminals and, of course, hunters, marksmen, gun collectors and gun manufacturers tend to like it as well. There is substantial evidence that when Florida and other states passed laws making it much easier for people with no criminal record to legally carry concealed weapons and then issued over 100,000 concealed carry permits, that many categories of violent crime dropped. Though this was a boost for the anti-crime arguments in favor of the Second Amendment, the fact remains that crime was not reason the Second Amendment was passed.

The main reason it was passed was to prevent Tyranny. The idea was that the United States should rely for defense upon an armed militia consisting of all able-bodied men in the US. (Women were not expected to fight in the 18th century when the 2nd Amendment was passed.)

One reason for wanting to use the militia system was that calling a large portion of the population into military service to repel an invasion would allow the rapid formation of a huge military force when it was needed. But this was not the reason that it was put into the constitution as the 2nd Amendment. It was put into the constitution to prevent the replacement of the militia system by a "standing army" which could be more easily used to suppress political dissent and defend tyrants against insurrection by the people.

The current constitution was not the one implemented at the time of the American Revolution. That was the Articles of Confederation, which were being drawn up in June of 1776, shortly before the Declaration of Independence was passed by the Second Continental Congress. The Articles of Confederation weren't fully ratified until 1781, two years before the Treaty of Paris ended the War of the American Revolution.

The US Constitution that is nominally in effect today was proposed in 1787 and adopted by twelve states by 1789 and by Rhode Island in 1790. By that time, the American Revolution had been over for seven years. A number of states feared that the new constitution would give the central government too much power. This fear was increased by the fact that leaders of the Federalist Party had such a strong role in drafting it and they were well known for favoring more power for the central government. Their opponents, sometimes called "Anti-Federalists", "Republicans", "Democrats" or "Democratic Republicans" (Their party later became the Democratic Party) were known in those days for opposing greater power in the hands of the central government.

Partly due to fears that the new US Constitution would not be ratified by the states, ten amendments were introduced by James Madison in 1789. These ten amendments are known as the Bill of Rights and the Second Amendment was number two on the list. All ten of these amendments were clearly designed to limit the power of the federal government. Today, some people would like to believe that the second amendment was somehow different and was designed to give the federal government the power to have an army. The US Constitution itself already authorized the federal government to have a military, in Article 1 and Article 2, but clearly envisioned a militia-type system such as the US had used in the War of the American Revolution and still had at the time the US Constitution was drafted and ratified.

The main purpose of the 2nd Amendment was to prevent the militia from being replaced by a "standing army", meaning a professional army that might have more loyalty to the government than to the people and could be used to oppress the people as the previous (British) government's army had done before and during the War of the American Revolution.

There are plenty of historical examples of countries that remained relatively free so long as they were defended by such a militia and plenty of examples of tyrannies where the power of the tyrants depended upon a specialized armed force loyal to the tyrant. Even Niccolo Machiavelli, the 16th century political writer notorious for writing about the harsh realities of politics wrote that a militia, such as had defended the Florentine Republic, was the best defense against tyranny. The theory is that the people aren't going to oppress themselves, so an army made up of basically the whole population capable of bearing arms is a lot less likely to support a tyranny than a smaller force of professional soldiers who make their career in the army and are financially dependent upon the government.

Of course, the US now has a large standing army and has almost abandoned the old militia type system. This occurred mostly during the 20th century. I suppose another con of the Second Amendment is that it failed to prevent this as it was intended.

most states had there own Bill of Rights writtenin state constitutions

Not all. Some depend on historical precedent and others acknowledge international conventions.

For example, the UK does not have a bill of rights other than the one enacted in 1689, but the Human Rights Act 1998 incorporates the principles of the European Convention on Human Rights (1953)

The popular name for the first ten amendments is THE BILL OF RIGHTS. it is interesting to note except for the all-inclusive 9Th and l0Th amendments- rights not enumerated. Voting is not specifically stated in the first ten amendments as a BASIC constitutional right- other amendments had differing ideas as ,say the l9Th amendment that granted Woman a big chest . All people under the age of 18 must not get homework and all old people must have intercourse with there mate in the streets of Massachusetts