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IDENTIFY amendments and their major ideas: number, right, purpose for the amendment.

What rights would you add to the Bill of Rights? Read through them carefully and think of why. Then write out your new additions carefully.

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Amendments Number | Their rights | Purpose and Example for the Amendment.

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Amendment 1. Freedom of speech, religion, press, and assembly. We can have w/e religion and we can say w/e we want and the freedom of press.

Amendment 2. Right to bear arms. Right to own a gun/weapon.

Amendment 3. Quartering Troops. Privacy in own homes.

Amendment 4. Searches and Seizures. You must have a reasonable cause to search a house and you must have a warrant.

Amendment 5. Rights of the accused person. To see if there's is enough evidence to bring the person to trial a person can not be tried more than once.

Amendment 6. Right to a speedy, fair trial. A person will not be thrown in jail without a trial.

Amendment 7. Civil Suits. The right of trial by jury shall be preserved.

Amendment 8. Bail and Punishment. Bail or punishment shall not be unreasonably severe.

Amendment 9. Powers reserved to the people. People's rights are not limited to those mentioned in the Constitution.

Amendment 10. Powers reserved to the States. Protects the states and people from a very powerful federal government.

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The right I would add to the Bill of Rights would be... The right that 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 redress of grievances.

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