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Bill of Rights as in: of the US Constitution
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The U.S. Bill of Rights was influenced by the 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights, the 1689 English Bill of Rights, and other works on natural rights including the Magna Carta (1215).
Bill of Rights = a statement of fundamental rights and privileges listed in the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution
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The U.S. Bill of Rights was added as the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution before it was ratified in order to get support from many who feared that without the amendments the Constitution didn't adequately protect human liberty.Bill of Rights = a statement of fundamental rights and privileges
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Ask him to describe a rose, to quote one passage from the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. (source)Bill of Rights = a statement of fundamental rights and privileges listed in the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution
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It was a required course—easy even by the desultory standards of our school — but trying to get Boris to understand about the Bill of Rights, and the enumerated versus implied powers of the U.S. Congress, reminded me of the time I'd tried to explain to Mrs. Barbour what an Internet server was. (source)
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I was armed with information from Sarah Byrnes's report on the Bill of Rights that I would use if necessary. (source)Bill of Rights = a statement of fundamental rights and privileges listed in the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution
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He wasn't the kind of dad who showed her how to ride a bike or to skip stones-instead, he taught her the Latin words for things like faucet and octopus and porcupine; he explained to her the Bill of Rights. (source)
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You can't find the answer in the Bible or the Bill of Rights. (source)
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But of greater concern was the absence of a bill of rights, in the spirit of what he had written for the constitution of Massachusetts. (source)
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Some of the State constitutions also have no bill of rights. (source)
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Bill Of Rights In addition to, and amendment of, the Constitution of the United States of America, proposed by Congress and ratified by the Legislatures of the several States, pursuant to the Fifth Article of the original Constitution Article I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government… (source)
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But spending on government services did not increase at a corresponding rate — because Colorado voters enacted a Taxpayers Bill of Rights in 1992 that placed strict limits on new government spending.† (source)
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The Americans have a Bill of Rights, right?† (source)
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The Magna Carta, the Petition of Rights and the Bill of Rights, are documents which are held in veneration by democrats throughout the world.† (source)
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I am a conservative in that I'm out to conserve the blue of the sky, the freshness of the air of which we have less and less, the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights, and whatever semblance of sanity we may have left.† (source)
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bill of rights as in: of any constitution
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The English had a bill of rights, as did many states, prior to adding one to the U.S. Constitution.
bill of rights = a statement of fundamental rights and privileges
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The other States have no bill of rights and their constitutions are silent. (source)
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They made him out to be the Royal arms, the Union-Jack, Magna Charta, John Bull, Habeas Corpus, the Bill of Rights, An Englishman's house is his castle, Church and State, and God save the Queen, all put together. (source)Bill of Rights = 1689 English Bill of Rights passed after the Glorious Revolution
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A third doesn't object to the government over individuals but wants a bill of rights. (source)bill of rights = a statement of fundamental rights and privileges
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New York has no bill of rights and her constitution says nothing about the matter. (source)bill of rights = a statement of fundamental rights and privileges
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Is a bill of rights essential to liberty? (source)bill of rights = a statement of fundamental rights and privileges listed in the first ten amendments to the United
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Its Bill of Rights says that standing armies are dangerous to liberty and should not be kept up in peacetime. (source)Bill of Rights = a statement of fundamental rights and privileges
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A fourth says a bill of rights is necessary but it should not declare the personal rights of individuals, but the rights reserved to the States. (source)
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A fifth believe that a bill of rights would be superfluous, but the Constitution has the fatal power of regulating the times and places of election. (source)
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The Articles has no bill of rights. (source)
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New York has no bill of rights. (source)
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Is a bill of rights essential to liberty? (source)
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The Confederation has no bill of rights. (source)
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And the proposed Constitution, if adopted, will be the bill of rights of the Union. (source)
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