RESOLVED by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America ... amendments to the Constitution in their original form. These amendments were ratified December 15, 1791, and ...

The First Amendment is widely considered to be the most important part of the Bill of Rights. It protects the ... However, in New York Times v. United States (1973), the Supreme Court ruled ...

The US Constitution has several important amendments. The first ten amendments to the Constitution are known as the Bill of Rights. They protect all of the basic freedoms of American people.

The story of the Ninth Amendment’s adoption begins with the decision by the Philadelphia convention to omit a bill of rights from the original Constitution ... of the united States particular ...

which became the Bill of Rights in 1791, was a protection of state power. The new Tenth Amendment stated: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it ...