Skip to content
The Bill of Rights: Every Amendment, Why it’s important, and How it limits the government
Summary
- The making of the Constitution involved many compromises.
- Federalists felt the government would not take rights from the people.
- Rights are not unlimited.
- The first three amendments are responses to British rule.
- Amendments four through eight are the rights of the accused.
- The Ninth Amendment assumes something is legal unless a law prohibits the behavior.
- The Tenth Amendment gives states all rights not addressed in the Constitution to the States.
