The Strengths of the Bill of Rights

The Bill of Rights put a lot of limitation to the government, making us the people have fair rights. In every colony in the United States had its own Bill of Rights. As a country, it was time for the United States to come up with their own Bill of Rights. In December 15, 1791 the Bill of Rights was ratified by the congress and added to our Constitution.

 

The Bill of Rights is the first 10 Amendments to our Constitution. The Bill of Rights also forms out the rights in detail to our government and it also assures that our civil rights and liberties to us as a citizen. The first amendment will include the freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly and petition. It also included the Rights to due process of law, freedom from self-incrimination and double jeopardy which is our fifth amendment. Going on to our second amendment which is the right to keep and bear arms, the third amendment is that soldier can't be staying in your home without consent. The fourth amendment is having freedom from unreasonable searches and seizures. So you can't be searched without a warrant anymore. Our sixth amendment is that we as people have the right to a speedy and public trial. The seventh amendment is the trial by jury on certain cases but it they to be non-criminal cases. The eighth amendment's include the prohibits on excessive fines. Also according to the lecture the Ninth amendment was just added to be there. Our last amendment includes that any power that constitution doesn't give to government it belongs to the states and the people. (Bill of Rights of the United States of America (1791)

 

The author of the Bill of Rights was James Madison. The audience that Madison was trying to target for the Bill of Rights was the people of the United States. The purpose of the Bill of Rights was to protect the people from excess government power and it was trying to protect the rights of a united states citizen. James Madison had showed 12 amendments to congress and proposed the Bill of Rights to the constitution. In September 25, 1789 the 12 amendments were sent to congress to get passed and then they were sent to the state. The Bill of Rights was written most importantly because of one person named George Mason, George Mason was one the major figures that lead this the Bill of Rights to happen.

 

Mason was in the Constitutional Convention when he ended up leaving upset because the Constitution didn't include any declaration about the basic human rights. After marching out of the convention Mason ended up working with James Madison who also agreed with him. They ended up working together so they could protect the citizens from the government. With James Madison writing and coming up everything, he ended up creating the first 12 amendments.  The Bill of Rights did end up achieving its purpose. They wanted to secure human rights in the constitution and put limitation to the government and they ended up doing that. They achieved their purpose by successfully passing amendments 3 through 12. With successfully passing these amendments, this ended up becoming what we call to this day our Bill of Rights.

 

The history significance that the Bill of Rights has is that it includes one of the most important amendments which is the First Amendment. The first amendment protects our basic liberties which is freedom of religion, speech, press, assembly and the freedom to petition the government rights wrong. The Bill of Rights is also significant because it includes the most important rights that were missed in the original constitution. Having the rights that were missed helps us as a country become better and head to a better future.

 

In conclusion the strengths in the Bill of Rights were that it gave us our liberty and rights also it guaranteed protection from the government. But some of the weaknesses that the Bill of Right had was that it only focused on men. You would think that Slaves, women, and Native Americans would also be counted as people. But apparently in the Bill of Rights, the liberties and rights were only for men.

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