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.

When Americans today think of the Constitution, many of us think of certain cherished freedoms we hold dear: freedom of speech, religion, and the press. Protection from unreasonable search and seizure ...

Therefore, newspapers were free to publish these documents. The Second Amendment ... and the English Bill of Rights corrected that injustice in 1689. Similarly, the U.S. Bill of Rights included ...

The document they considered ... Rights for consideration . . . in its preparation of an international bill of rights." The Commission, at its first session early in 1947, authorized its members ...

The state Department of Education has quietly issued a second request to allow bids to purchase 55,000 Bibles for ...

The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), adopted in 1979 by the UN General Assembly, is often described as an international bill of rights for women.

President Donald Trump’s team has overhauled the White House website, removing key historical pages that have traditionally ...

Republicans in the House and Senate introduced a bill Thursday called the Families’ Rights and Responsibilities Act, upping the fight over parental rights. The goal of bill is to apply the ...

This allows for some form of due process for those who have ... safety concerns and threatening state oversight. "This Bill of Rights isn't incompatible with other homeless mitigation efforts ...