Sunday, August 13, 2023

The Bill of Rights

 The Bill of Rights cover the following topics:

  1. Freedom of Speech, Religion, Petition, of the Press
  2.  Rights to Bear Arms
  3.  Protection from Quartering of Troops
  4. Protection from illegal Search and Seizure
  5. Grand Jury/ Double Jeopardy, Self incrimination and Due process, eminent domain
  6.  Criminal Prosecution, Jury Trail, Right to Confront, And to Counsel
  7. Common Law Suits and jury Trail
  8.  Excess bails and fines, cruel and unusual punishment
  9.  Protection of Non enumerated rights
  10.  Rights reserved to States or people- the states and federal laws in correlation to the peoples rights.
However there is many more amendments besides the above stated amendments, 27 to be exact. 

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