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 Amendment is widely considered to be the most important part of the Bill of Rights. It protects the fundamental rights of conscience—the freedom to believe and express different ideas ...

This amendment is pretty straightforward in its original text, but not all free speech is protected. Advocacy groups like the ...

Most Americans cannot list three or more rights enumerated in the First Amendment, and less than two-thirds can list all three branches of the federal government, according to new polling.

Madison synthesized several of the state ratifying conventions’ proposals into a list of proposed amendments that provided an important template for the first ten amendments to the Constitution.

The Federalist No. 39. The Framers of the Tenth Amendment had two purposes in mind when they drafted it. The first was a necessary rule of construction. The second was to reaffirm the nature of ...