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Bill of Rights as in:  of the US 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
  • 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)
    Bill of Rights = a statement of fundamental rights and privileges listed in the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution
  • 2 The most important of the remaining objections is that the new Constitution contains no bill of rights.   (source)
  • 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)
  • 10 A bill of rights is not only unnecessary in the proposed Constitution, but would be dangerous.   (source)
  • Therefore, a bill of rights doesn't belong in the Constitution.   (source)
  • And the proposed Constitution, if adopted, will be the bill of rights of the Union.   (source)
  • Conversely, the constitution of each State is its bill of rights.   (source)
  • Some of the State constitutions also have no bill of rights.   (source)
  • 12 The Constitution is, in every rational sense and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS.   (source)
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  • While Jefferson would have much to say about the Constitution and the need for a bill of rights in subsequent private correspondence with Madison, he made no public statement for the time being, whereas Adams sent off a strong endorsement to John Jay that was to be widely quoted at home.   (source)
  • Writing from Paris a few days later, before receiving Adams's letter, Jefferson said nothing about a bill of rights, only that there were "things" in the Constitution that "stagger all my dispositions to subscribe" to it.   (source)
  • Therefore, referring to what is meant by a bill of rights, it is absurd to say that it is not in the proposed Constitution.   (source)
  • Does a bill of rights list the political privileges of the citizens in the structure and administration of the government?   (source)
  • Should a bill of rights define certain immunities and modes of proceeding in personal and private concerns?   (source)
  • Yet people who oppose the new Constitution, people in New York who profess an unlimited admiration for New York's constitution, are demanding a bill of rights.   (source)
  • Among the imagined defects are:
    no term limits for the Executive,
    no executive council,
    no formal bill of rights, and
    no provision for the liberty of the press.
    New York's constitution doesn't have these provisions.   (source)
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bill of rights as in:  of any constitution

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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)
  • A third doesn't object to the government over individuals but wants a bill of rights.   (source)
  • 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
  • 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
  • The other States have no bill of rights and their constitutions are silent.   (source)
    bill of rights = a statement of fundamental rights and privileges
  • 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)
  • The Articles has no bill of rights.   (source)
  • 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)
  • New York has no bill of rights.   (source)
  • Is a bill of rights essential to liberty?   (source)
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  • And the proposed Constitution, if adopted, will be the bill of rights of the Union.   (source)
  • The Confederation has no bill of rights.   (source)
  • Such, also, was the Declaration of Right presented by the Lords and Commons to the Prince of Orange in 1688, and afterwards thrown into the form of an act of parliament called the Bill of Rights.   (source)
  • A third does not object to the government over individuals, or to the extent proposed, but to the want of a bill of rights.   (source)
  • Adverting therefore to the substantial meaning of a bill of rights, it is absurd to allege that it is not to be found in the work of the convention.   (source)
  • The Bill of Rights of that State declares that standing armies are dangerous to liberty, and ought not to be kept up in time of peace.   (source)
    bill of rights = a statement of fundamental rights and privileges
  • The several bills of rights in Great Britain form its Constitution, and conversely the constitution of each State is its bill of rights.   (source)
    bill of rights = a statement of fundamental rights and privileges
  • Is another object of a bill of rights to define certain immunities and modes of proceeding, which are relative to personal and private concerns?   (source)
  • Is it one object of a bill of rights to declare and specify the political privileges of the citizens in the structure and administration of the government?   (source)
  • The truth is, after all the declamations we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS.   (source)
    bill of rights = a statement of fundamental rights and privileges
  • Among the pretended defects are the re-eligibility of the Executive, the want of a council, the omission of a formal bill of rights, the omission of a provision respecting the liberty of the press.   (source)
  • And yet the opposers of the new system, in this State, who profess an unlimited admiration for its constitution, are among the most intemperate partisans of a bill of rights.   (source)
    bill of rights = a statement of fundamental rights and privileges
  • At the revolution, to abolish the exercise of so dangerous an authority, it became an article of the Bill of Rights then framed, that "the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, UNLESS WITH THE CONSENT OF PARLIAMENT, was against law."   (source)
  • A fifth is of opinion that a bill of rights of any sort would be superfluous and misplaced, and that the plan would be unexceptionable but for the fatal power of regulating the times and places of election.   (source)
  • A fourth concurs in the absolute necessity of a bill of rights, but contends that it ought to be declaratory, not of the personal rights of individuals, but of the rights reserved to the States in their political capacity.   (source)
  • To justify their zeal in this matter, they allege two things: one is that, though the constitution of New York has no bill of rights prefixed to it, yet it contains, in the body of it, various provisions in favor of particular privileges and rights, which, in substance amount to the same thing; the other is, that the Constitution adopts, in their full extent, the common and statute law of Great Britain, by which many other rights, not expressed in it, are equally secured.   (source)
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  • When her sister called up indignant and spouting about the Bill of Rights, had Diana thought that her nephew was going to grow up to become a psychopath?†   (source)
  • Ask him to describe a rose, to quote one passage from the Constitution or the Bill of Rights.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • I was armed with informationfrom Sarah Byrnes's report on the Bill of Rights that I would use if necessary.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • The Americans have a Bill of Rights, right?†   (source)
  • You can't find the answer in the Bible or the Bill of Rights.†   (source)
  • It's also an important part of our common citizenship; the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the judicial precedents, all these are in English.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • 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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  • Parliament then made it the "Bill of Rights."†   (source)
  • For a starter let's adopt the Virginia Bill of Rights as article one.†   (source)
  • And by the sacred Bill of Rights, you'll have the protection from the murderer that any honest law-abiding citizen deserves.†   (source)
  • Sarah Byrnes's report on the Bill of Rights said it was a basic ....".†   (source)
  • The Bill of Rights limited his authority.†   (source)
  • Number 84: Bill of Rights; Capital; Debts due Union; Expenses†   (source)
  • 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)
  • Constitution as Bill of Rights†   (source)
  • Bill of Rights†   (source)
  • 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)
  • How about a bill of rights?†   (source)
  • But we must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.†   (source)
  • But we must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • The Preamble to The Bill of Rights Congress of the United States begun and held at the City of New-York, on Wednesday the fourth of March, one thousand seven hundred and eighty nine.†   (source)
  • The most considerable of the remaining objections is that the plan of the convention contains no bill of rights.†   (source)
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