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 Waqf Amendment Bill, which proposes key changes to the management of waqf properties in India, has sparked debate over ...

Constitutional validity: The Waqf Act applies solely to one religion, with no similar law for others. A PIL in the Delhi high ...

The Fourth Amendment protects Americans from “unreasonable searches and seizures” by the government. But the Supreme Court's interpretation of “unreasonable” has varied over time.

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 ...