Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! On December 15, 1791, the Bill of Rights was ratified by Virginia, allowing the passage of the first ten amendments to the Constitution.

The Bill of Rights came into effect in December 1791, after ratification by three-fourths of the state legislatures and contains the first ten amendments. These are considered the benchmark laws ...

The most popular of these proposed amendments, 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 ...

University of Michigan. The right to free speech is one of the most fundamental American guarantees, ratified as part of the Bill of Rights in 1791. Yet defining the limits of free speech has ...

The road was long from ancient times where religious and civil authority were one, where all law was divine and enforced by priests, then through the divine rights of kings, ...

Note: The following text is a transcription of the first ten amendments to the Constitution in their original form. These amendments were ratified December 15, 1791, and form what is known as the ...