A few days ago
Anonymous

Can someone help me with the first 10 Amendment???

I’m having trouble understanding the first ten Amendments, can someone please help me to understand what they each mean???

Top 2 Answers
A few days ago
kevin.

Favorite Answer

The first 10 Amendments are known as the Bill of Rights. These amendments limit the powers of the federal government, protecting the rights of all citizens, residents and visitors on United States territory.

Among the enumerated rights these amendments guarantee are: the freedoms of speech, press, and religion; the people’s right to keep and bear arms; the freedom of assembly; the freedom to petition; and the rights to be free of unreasonable search and seizure; cruel and unusual punishment; and compelled self-incrimination.

It’s basically the laws of all the freedom rights you have.. Good luck. :]

0

A few days ago
Eric212
Technically, the Bill of Rights does not grant us any rights. It denies the government from prohibiting those natural rights. Read the First Amendment. It does not grant us freedom of speech. It denies Congress from prohibiting free speech.

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Now, read the Second Amendment carefully. We have always had the right to keep and bear arms. Congress is restricted from infringing on that right.

Amendment II

A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

Read all the amendments in the Bill of Rights. They say what Congress cannot do. And just so if someone tried to turn those words around, the Framers added the 9th and 10th amendments to make sure every thing not expressly granted as a federal power was a right left to the people or the states:

Amendment IX

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Amendment X

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

0