The U.S. Constitution is the supreme law of America. Amendments are part of the Constitution. The first 10 Amendments, or Bill of Rights, were submitted to the state legislatures in September 1789 ...

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. The Tenth Amendment expresses the ...

Note: The following text is a transcription of the first ten amendments to the Constitution in their original form. These amendments were ratified December 15, 1791, and form what is known as the ...

The first ten Amendments to the Constitution protect all of the basic freedoms of Americans and are known as the Bill of Rights. The most famous are perhaps the first, second and fifth Amendments.

That's compared to 27 amendments (including the original 10 in the Bill of Rights) in the U.S. Constitution over more than 200 years. The following is an edited explanation of the proposed ...

On December 15, 1791, the Bill of Rights was ratified by Virginia, allowing the passage of the first ten amendments to the Constitution. Virginia was the tenth of fourteen states to ratify the ...