Bill+of+Rights

//**BILL OF RIGHTS (pg 34 - 36,98 - 99, 111)**//


 * 1) Need For a Bill of Rights
 * 2) 1787 - Anti-Federalist party of the U.S. felt a need to add a list of rights into the Constitution to ensure that their personal liberties would not be revoked
 * 3) Initially, before the bill of rights was added to the Constitution there //were// some civil liberties guaranteed:
 * 4) **Habeas corpus** (an order to produce an arrested person before a judge) may not be suspended
 * 5) No **bill of attainder** (a law that declares a person, without a trial, to be guilty of a crime) may be passed by Congress or the states
 * 6) No **ex post facto law** (a law that declares a person, without a trial, to be guilty of a crime) may be passed by Congress or the states
 * 7) Right of trial by jury in criminal cases is guaranteed
 * 8) The citizens of each states are entitled to the privileges and immunities of the citizens of every other state
 * 9) No religious test or qualification for holding federal office is imposed
 * 10) No law impairing the obligation of contracts may be passed by the states
 * 11) Though these rights were provided in the original Constitution Anti-Federalists feared that their rights to life, liberty, and property would be obscured
 * 12) The Bill of Rights
 * 13) The first ten amendments to the Constitution
 * 14) Protections afforded citizens to participate in the political process
 * 15) Amendment 1: Freedom of religion, speech, press, and assembly; the right to petition the government __**A FEW ON THIS ONE - ESTABLISHMENT CLAUSE - WALL OF SEPARATION**__
 * 16) Amendment 2: the right to bear arms
 * 17) Amendment 3: soldiers cannot be quartered in a private home without the consent of the homeowner
 * 18) Amendment 4: search and seizures
 * 19) Amendment 5: rights when accused; "due process" laws
 * 20) Amendment 6: Rights when on trial
 * 21) Amendment 7: Common law suits
 * 22) Amendment 8: no cruel and unusual punishment
 * 23) Amendment 9: unenumerated rights protected
 * 24) Amendment 10: powers reserved for the state **__GOOD QUESTION ON THIS ONE!__**
 * 25) Rights the Bill of Rights did not allow for
 * 26) The Bill of Rights did not guarantee
 * 27) Civil Rights to African Americans
 * 28) Given under Amendment 13
 * 29) Civil Rights to Women __**- BE CAREFUL HERE  NO ERA, 19 JUST GIVES THE RIGHT TO VOTE**__
 * 30) Given under Amendment 19
 * 31) Civil Rights to anyone born or naturalized in the U.S. - __**AGAIN - BE CAREFUL HERE - AFRICAN AMERICANS GET MOST OF THEIR RIGHTS IN THE 1960s - - COURTS DID NOT INTERPRET THE 14th TO GIVE EQUALITY AS WE KNOW IT TODAY --- THERE WERE PLENTY OF WAYS IN WHICH THEY WERE DENIED LEGISLATIVELY AS WELL.**__
 * 32) Given under Amendment 14