The Bill of Rights
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The Bill of Rights is the Constitution's first ten amendments, designed to protect individual freedoms from government interference.
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Speech, religion, press, arms, searches, trials, punishments — the charter of liberties in ten entries.
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As written, the protections bound only the national government.
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- 100 Barron v. Baltimore (1833)
- 101 The Fourteenth Amendment's Due Process Clause
- 104 The Establishment Clause
- 107 Freedom of Speech
- 110 Assembly and Petition
- 111 The Second Amendment
- 112 The Fourth Amendment
- 113 The Fifth Amendment: Self-Incrimination
- 115 The Sixth Amendment: Counsel
- 116 The Eighth Amendment
- 117 The Inferred Right to Privacy
- 134 Two Shields