The First Amendment is widely considered to be ... their Protestant subjects from owning firearms, and the English Bill of Rights corrected that injustice in 1689. Similarly, the U.S. Bill of ...

Note: The following text is a transcription of the first ten amendments to the Constitution in their original form. These amendments were ratified December 15, 1791, and form what is known as the ...

The declaration in the English Bill of Rights that “cruel and unusual punishments ... in America before the drafting of the Eighth Amendment, would prohibit torturous punishments such as ...

The absence of a bill of rights was among the most ... both argue that a normal speaker of English at the time of enactment would have understood the amendment’s text as implying both that ...

The most popular of these proposed amendments, which became the Bill of Rights in 1791, was a protection of state power. The new Tenth Amendment stated: “The powers not delegated to the United ...

On December 15, 1791, the Bill of Rights was ratified by Virginia, allowing the passage of the first ten amendments to the Constitution. Virginia was the tenth of fourteen states to ratify the ...