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What Major Essentials Does The Bill Of Rights In The American Constitution Signify?

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    The Bill of Rights of the Constitution of the United States consists of the first ten amendments that were added to the constitution on the demand of the anti-federalists, the people who were not in favor of the constitution.  There are ten amendments constituting the Bill of Rights, the first one giving all the citizens of the United States the freedom of speech, the freedom of religion, the freedom of press, assembly and petition also.  In the regard of the second amendment, it vouchesafes the right of a US citizen to serve in the army and to keep arms and ammunitions.  

    As for the third amendment, it encumbers any US government to coerce the housing of soldiers in any household.  In the fourth amendment, the consitution protects the citizens from the prospect of gratuitous searches and seizures that are not really required.  Then comes the fifth amendment that is for convicts and vouches that no person would be denied the deserved right of life, liberty or property without holding a proper legal procession.  Speaking about the six amendment, it extends the rights of a convict empowering him the right to trial by jury and also the right to have a lawyer.  The seventh amendment becomes more specific and grants the right of trial to a jury in civil cases.  Then comes the eighth amendment that bans any kind of excessive bails or fines and prohibits any cruel or unusual punishment.  Ninth amendment terms declares that the rights listed in the Bill of Rights and the Constitution are not the only rights of the people.  As for the tenth amendment, it issues the statement that powers that are not specifically assigned to the national or federal government are either the power of the state governments or the people of the US.
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    Mehreen83  

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