American Government / Unit 3 Gov 099 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Bill of Rights
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The idea
The Bill of Rights is the Constitution's first ten amendments, designed to protect individual freedoms from government interference.
In practice
Speech, religion, press, arms, searches, trials, punishments — the charter of liberties in ten entries.
Where people slip
As written, the protections bound only the national government.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
Builds on
Unlocks
- 100Barron v. Baltimore (1833)
- 101The Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
- 104The Establishment Clause
- 107Freedom of Speech
- 110Assembly and Petition
- 111The Second Amendment
- 112The Fourth Amendment
- 113The Fifth Amendment: Self-Incrimination
- 115The Sixth Amendment: Counsel
- 116The Eighth Amendment
- 117The Inferred Right to Privacy
- 134Two Shields
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