Bill of Rights

The Bill of Rights is an important part in our everyday lives because it gives us many of the freedoms we have. It is historically important because it shaped the people’s rights. The Bill of Rights affects everyone, including myself. It gives me rights if I were to get arrested and it gives me my freedom to what religion I practice. The Bill of Rights protects our freedoms, and to prove this I will explain its history, give information about its ten amendments, provide a court case, and state my opinion on a potential twenty-eighth amendment. The Bill of Rights is important in our everyday lives because it gives guidelines for the government on what they can and can’t do .
The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to our Constitution and was ratified in 1791 (Yero 5). It was created because people said the Constitution gave the government too much power. Eleven states were for the Bill of Rights, mostly because they were scared of government abuse. These people were also known as anti-federalists. The three states that were against it thought the government was wasting time on this document. These people wanted the U.S. to start running as a country as quickly as possible. The effect the Bill of Rights had on America back then was mostly positive because the majority of the people were for it. The Bill of Rights affects us today in many ways. It gives us our freedom from the government, we can express our opinions, and own a gun for our own protection. There are many more rights protected in this important document (6).

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First Amendment
Amendment One protects our freedom to religion, speech, assembly, and press.
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... men and women can support themselves and a family. My twenty-eighth amendment would be equal rights which would be beneficial because men and women would be more equal.
The Bill of Rights is important in our everyday lives because it protects our freedoms. The Bill of Rights is important to me it gives me freedom of expression. In the book The Emerald Atlas an evil witch locks up children in various places, and if one tries to escape they get attacked by a Screecher, which screams fill one up with fear. This is a cruel and unusual punishment, like the Eighth Amendment. The Bill of Rights protects our freedoms, and to prove this I explained its history, gave information about its ten amendments, provided a court case, and stated my opinion on a potential twenty-eighth amendment. Without the Bill of Rights our lives would be very controlled with little freedom.