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The Bill of Rights(definitions)(please do all of them)

1. Who wrote the original list of proposed amendments?
2. What is the main function/purpose of the Bill of Rights?
3. What is majority rule?
4. List the 5 basic rights provided by the First Amendment.
5. Is all types of speech protected by the First Amendment?
6. Are all protests protected by the First Amendment?
7. What 2 things are protected by the Second Amendment?
8. What previous experience do you think led to the Third Amendment?
9. What does the Fourth Amendment protect you from?
10. Name 2 protections that you are provided by the Fifth Amendment.
11. What is the purpose of the Sixth Amendment?
12. What does the Seventh Amendment do?
13. Define dual sovereignty.
14. What is the supremacy clause?
15. What are 2 things you are protected from under the Eighth Amendment.
16. What does the Ninth Amendment do?
17. What is the purpose of the Tenth Amendment?

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1. james madison

2. The Bill of Rights is the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution. It spells out Americans' rights in relation to their government. It guarantees civil rights and liberties to the individual—like freedom of speech, press, and religion.

3. the principle that the greater number should exercise greater power.

4. he five freedoms it protects: speech, religion, press, assembly, and the right to petition the government. Together, these five guaranteed freedoms make the people of the United States of America the freest in the world.

5. The Supreme Court has recognized that the First Amendment's protections extend to individual and collective speech “in pursuit of a wide variety of political, social, economic, educational, religious, and cultural ends.” Roberts v

6. After all, the First Amendment protects our freedom of speech, the right to peaceably assemble and to petition government “for a redress of grievances.”

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