The first ten Amendments to the Constitution protect all of the basic freedoms of Americans and are known as the Bill of Rights. The most famous are perhaps the first, second and fifth Amendments.

State officials took another loss in a case arguing against the display of the Ten Commandments in public school classrooms.

inference that the Bill of Rights implied the existence of such powers. The First Amendment, for instance, states that “Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech ...

Congress shall make no law...abridging...the right of the people peaceably to assemble.... There has been some debate as to whether “the right of the people ...

Former Tennessee Attorney General Paul G. Summers writes this regular civics education guest opinion column about the U.S.

I served as dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism for ten years ... which is why the First Amendment, along with the rest of the Bill of Rights, was added a few years ...

Amendments are part of the Constitution. The first 10 Amendments, or Bill of Rights, were submitted to the state legislatures in September 1789.The Bill of Rights was ratified in December 1791.