The Bill of Rights, the first 10 Amendments to our U.S. Constitution, detail the 'rights' that we, as American citizens, possess. Those rights are not granted to us by the Constitution, they are documented in the document to ensure that the freedoms and liberties we have are respected and followed by the governments we establish.Among those rights are freedom of the press, of religion and of speech; right to bear arms; against unreasonable search and seizure; to due process of the law; a trial by jury; to bail; and the one most people forget, the restriction of the federal government: "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."From the preamble, we have the right to pursue happiness, but none of the founding...
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