Today day is December 15 Bill of Rights Day observed every year. President Franklin D. Roosevelt designated Bill of Rights Day on December 15 in 1941.
- Amendment 1- Freedom of speech, press and religion
- Amendment 2 - The right to bear arms
- Amendment 3- Protection of homeowners from quartering troops, except during war.
- Amendment 4 - Rights and protections against unreasonable search and seizure
- Amendment 5 - Rights of due process of law, protection against double jeopardy, self incrimination
- Amendment 6 - Rights of a speedy trial by jury of peers and rights of accused
- Amendment 7 - Rights to trial by jury in civil cases
- Amendment 8 - Protection from cruel and unusual punishment, excessive bail
- Amendment 9 - Protection of rights not specified in the Bill of Rights
- Amendment 10 - States rights, power of the states
The amendments were introduced by James Madison to the 1st United States Congress as a series of legislative articles. They were adopted by the House of Representatives on August 21, 1789, formally proposed by joint resolution of Congress on September 25, 1789, and came into effect as Constitutional Amendments on December 15, 1791, through the process of ratification by three-fourths of the states. The Bill of Rights had little judicial impact for the first 150 years of its existence, but was the basis for many Supreme Court decisions of the 20th and 21st centuries. (With material from: Wikipedia)
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