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	NARA \| The National Archives Experience - Bill of Rights
		Fresh in their minds was the memory of the British violation of civil rights before and during the Revolution.
		Articles 3 to 12, however, ratified by three-fourths of the state legislatures, constitute the first 10 amendments of the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights.
		When James Madison drafted the amendments to the Constitution that were to become the Bill of Rights, he drew heavily upon the ideas put forth in the Virginia Declaration of Rights.
	www.archives.gov /national-archives-experience/charters/bill_of_rights.html (299 words)

	Bill Of Rights
		The US Bill of Rights includes a wide range of protections with a common theme and purpose — to define the scope of individual freedom in the United States and to make the political system more democratic.
		The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
		Third, the Bill of Rights, especially the First Amendment, helps protect democratic government by barring criminal prosecutions against those who criticize the government and those who hold unpopular beliefs, and by providing a safe haven for minorities who are oppressed in many other countries.
	www.enter.net /~jtmaru/rights/rights.html (1291 words)

	Welcome to BillOfRights.com
		The drafters of the Constitution were not against a bill of rights; however, as they were drafting a document that would allow only certain enumerated rights to the central government, they simply didn’t see the need for guaranteed rights to be set out in the document.
		In drafting the Bill of Rights the framers looked to further define the role of the central government, essentially by saying that the central government would never engage in certain conduct, that is to say, there would be certain actions that the federal government would simply never do.
		It was in this fashion that the Bill of Rights was born and wherein its primary significance rests, the protection of certain basic rights.
	www.billofrights.com (1146 words)

	Bill of rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A bill of rights can be a statement of certain rights that may be guaranteed to citizens or residents of a society, legal jurisdiction, or nation-state; or an enumeration of rights they would like to have or believe they ought to have.
		A bill of rights that is cannot be changed unless it is with the approval of the voting public in that country.
		Infringement of rights protected by a bill of rights (such as by repeal of statutory protections or by statutory infringement of constitutionally protected rights) may cause civil unrest, civil disobedience or even revolution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_of_Rights (685 words)

	Chinese Critique of US Human Rights Practices
		The right to equality is generally stipulated as a basic ingredient and principle of human rights in the constitutions of various countries, but the US Constitution adopted in 1787 and its amendment, the Bill of Rights, adopted in 1789, do not contain provisions concerning the right to equality.
		Figures from the US Census Bureau show that in 1994 the average income of the richest 20 per cent of families was 14.7 times that of the poorest 20 per cent of families.
		Statistics in 1991 in the US showed that the country had the highest number of juveniles sentenced to death and that all juveniles condemned to death in the country were fl.
	www.mtholyoke.edu /acad/intrel/chindail.htm (6075 words)

	LII: Constitution
		A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
		The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
		In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
	www.law.cornell.edu /constitution/constitution.billofrights.html (273 words)

	Bill of Rights: Primary Documents of American History (Virtual Programs & Services, Library of Congress)
		Articles three through twelve, known as the Bill of Rights, became the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution and contained guarantees of essential rights and liberties omitted in the crafting of the original document.
		George Mason, of Fairfax County, Virginia, wrote the Virginia Declaration of Rights, on which the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights are partially modeled.
		The new United States of America adopted the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, confirming the fundamental rights of its citizens on December 15, 1791.
	www.loc.gov /rr/program/bib/ourdocs/billofrights.html (1141 words)

	Kentucky: Department of Revenue - Taxpayer Bill of Rights
		As a Kentucky taxpayer, you have the right to expect the Department of Revenue to honor its mission and uphold your rights every time you contact or are contacted by the Department of Revenue.
		You have the right to protest and appeal a determination of the Department of Revenue if you disagree with an assessment of tax or penalty, reduction or a denial of a refund, a revocation of a license or permit, or other determination made by the Department of Revenue.
		You have the right to be informed of this right prior to the conference or hearing.
	revenue.ky.gov /billofrights.htm (827 words)

	DDL -- Swiss Bill Of Rights, 1999
		The constitution's bill of rights, found in the three chapters of Title 2, is the world's most up-to-date constitutional statement of human rights.
		The right to marry and to have a family is guaranteed.
		All persons deprived of their liberty have the right to be informed immediately, and in a language that they understand, of the reasons for their detention, and of their rights.
	www.ddleague-usa.net /sbor.htm (2381 words)

	EconoTrix - The Danish Bill of Rights
		The Danish Constitution doesn’t enumerate a specific set of rights in the same was as the US Bill of Rights.
		Lau, the point of limiting certain property rights in the US Constitution is that the constitution itself specifies limits and exceptions.
		Some of the worst things done to us, things that put us increasingly under the spell of government to overrule our independence and judgment, are done in the name of "the public good" by those we trust most.
	econotrix.com /archives/000571.html (1764 words)

	United States Bill of Rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Bill was influenced by George Mason's 1776 Virginia Declaration of Rights, the 1689 English Bill of Rights, works of the Age of Enlightenment pertaining to natural rights, and earlier English political documents such as the Magna Carta (1215).
		The English Bill of Rights (1689), one of the fundamental documents of English law, differed substantially in form and intent from the American Bill of Rights, because it was intended to address only the rights of Parliamentarians sitting in Parliament against the Crown.
		^ Preamble to the Bill of Rights (2006-03-10).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights (3584 words)

	Rights of the People: Individual Freedom and the Bill of Rights
		Others, however, aware of the explicit rights guaranteed in earlier documents such as the British Bill of Rights (1689) and the Virginia Declaration of Rights in 1776, believed that some specific provision stating the rights of individuals was necessary.
		In fact, the Bill of Rights can be read as the definitive statement of that most American of values: the idea that the individual is prior to and takes precedence over any government.
		As the title "The Rights of the People: Individual Freedom and the Bill of Rights" suggests, this book is our effort to explain how the core concepts of individual liberty and individual rights have evolved under the U.S. legal system down the present day.
	usinfo.state.gov /products/pubs/rightsof/homepage.htm (734 words)

	The Dominion: US passes bill removing rights of some prisoners
		Particularly arresting is the fact that the bill overturns the habeas corpus laws as applied to any non-US citizen prosecuted by the military.
		Before the bill was passed, the president already had the legal power to suspend these rights during invasion or emergency.
		Besides abolishing the right to contest one's own arrest and detainment, the changes made on September 29 make it legal to use coerced testimony as concrete evidence, as well as hearsay, if it is deemed reliable by a judge, reports the
	dominionpaper.ca /international_news/2006/10/04/us_passes_.html (434 words)

	US Bill of Rights
		Amendment IX he enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
		The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
		The right of citizens of the United States, who are eighteen years of age or older, to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of age.
	www.strongerfamilies.com /public_sq/bill_rights.cfm (1813 words)

	The Original US Bill of Rights; Introduction Page
		This is not a draft copy of the Bill of Rights; it is a copy of the Bill of Rights as it was approved by Congress, ratified by the several States, and then signed into Law by the United States Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson.
		The Bill of Rights was originally made up of the Bill itself, which included the Preamble, and the 12 ARTICLES contained within the Bill, of which 10 were approved by the States, and two were rejected.
		The Preamble to the US Bill of Rights is the guarantee to the masses of common American people, that the Constitution is not open to misconstruction or abuse by those in power.
	www.geocities.com /ensey_in_2000/bor1.html (1546 words)

	Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge \| Honoring patriotism, good citizenship, and US history education
		Amendment II A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
		No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.
		Amendment IX The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
	www.ffvf.org /bill_rights.asp (242 words)

	NARA \| The National Archives Experience - Bill of Rights
		Fresh in their minds was the memory of the British violation of civil rights before and during the Revolution.
		They demanded a "bill of rights" that would spell out the immunities of individual citizens.
		When James Madison drafted the amendments to the Constitution that were to become the Bill of Rights, he drew heavily upon the ideas put forth in the Virginia Declaration of Rights.
	archives.gov /national_archives_experience/charters/bill_of_rights.html (299 words)

	The United States Constitution - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net
		If after such Reconsideration two thirds of that House shall agree to pass the Bill, it shall be sent, together with the Objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by two thirds of that House, it shall become a Law.
		The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
		This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
	www.usconstitution.net /const.html (5199 words)

	The US Bill of Rights at Lady Liberty's Constitution Clearing House
		These ten amendments, ratified in 1791, were quickly appended to the Constitution by the framers so as to clarify that they considered certain rights inlienable, and that those rights were, in particular, not to be infringed upon by the government.
		Although not a part of the Bill of Rights, as it is called, there are additional amendments to the Constitution.
		Many among the judiciary, as well as most Constitutional scholars, believe the right to privacy is implied throughout the founding documents, and some important court decisions have been made based on the constitutionally protected right to privacy.
	www.ladylibrty.com /bill_of_rights.html (609 words)

	Bill of Rights sets us apart
		DANIEL G. Dec. 15 has been Bill of Rights Day since President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaimed it in 1941, the 150th anniversary of the 1791 ratification of the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
		Mason's proposal that a bill of rights preface the Constitution was defeated, and he refused to place his signature on the final document which would make Washington the first president.
		Some states accepted the Constitution only on condition that a bill of rights be added, not to grant rights but to affirm that rights already existed and would not be usurped.
	muscanet.com /~dclark/published/bill-of-rights-day.html (639 words)

	DigitalConsumer.org Bill of Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		This gives you the right to use your content in different places (as long as each use is personal and non-commercial).
		This gives you the right to make archival copies to be used in the event that your original copies are destroyed.
		Users have the right to use legally acquired content on the platform of their choice.
	www.digitalconsumer.org /bill.html (291 words)

	Know your Rights!
		I have started with the Constitution of the United States, the U.S. Bill of Rights, the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights portions of the constitutions of the individual States.
		The correct United States Bill of Rights, including a archive "photo" of the original Bill of Rights as it was sent to the several states and ratified.
		NVCAN is a 501(c)(3) organization supporting the adoption of an amendment to the U.S. Constitution recognizing the fundamental rights of crime victims to be treated with dignity, fairness and respect by the criminal justice system.
	www.harbornet.com /rights/states.html (1576 words)

	Bill of Rights
		In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation;
		Article the twelfth [Amendment X] 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 question remains open of where those additional, and grammatically spurious, commas came from, but they do not change the legal meaning of the provision, and it would not be erroneous to omit them.
	www.constitution.org /billofr_.htm (508 words)

	Congress for Kids
		The committee also announced that it will hear testimony from anyone wishing to speak in defense of the Bill of Rights and argue to keep it.
		Match a protected right with the appropriate amendment in the US Bill of Rights.
		Explore Constitutional rights and learn how these freedoms are protected by the Bill of Rights and the Amendments.
	www.congressforkids.net /games/billofrights/2_billofrights.htm (632 words)

	US Bill Of Rights (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		AMENDMENT VII In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.
		AMENDMENT IX The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be con- strued to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
		AMENDMENT X 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.
	www.geocities.com /Stann0/misc/bor.html (241 words)

	About Us - Patient Bill of Rights - Baylor Clinic : Houston, Texas
		You have the right to all the information you need to make the best possible decisions, including treatment options, test results, and an explanation of costs involved.
		You have the right to talk in confidence with your healthcare providers and, within legal limits, to have your privacy protected at all times.
		You have the right to request that your examination be completed without anyone else in the room (unless a chaperone is required for sensitive exams).
	www.bcm.edu /baylorclinic/about/bill.cfm (464 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Politics \| Tory Bill of Rights bid slammed
		They knew that whatever crime they had committed or if there was a suspicion they might be planning a terrorist attack in the UK or elsewhere, they would not be sent back to their country of origin "because the process is so complicated and time-consuming for the government".
		People would still be able to pursue their claims in the European courts but judges would have a British Bill of Rights to base their rulings upon, he said.
		Ex-Conservative chairman Lord Tebbit warned that any British Bill of Rights could be overridden in Strasbourg as long as the UK remains signed up to the European convention.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk_politics/5115912.stm (757 words)

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