Amendments 1-10 The Bill of Rights
•Note - Amendments 1-10 were all
sent to the states and adopted at
the same time. !
•Amendment I - Freedom of
Speech, Press & Religion
•Date Send to the States - Sept. 25,
1789!
•Date Adopted - Dec. 15, 1791!
•What it does - Establishes the right
to Free Speech, Free exercise of
Religion, Freedom of the Press,
Freedom of Assembly & Petition
and Prohibits the Government of
Establishing an official Religion
Amendments 1-10 The Bill of Rights
•Amendment II - The Right to Own
Firearms
•Date Send to the States - Sept. 25, 1789!
•Date Adopted - Dec. 15, 1791!
•What it does - Establishes that states can
maintain a militia and over the last two
hundred years as been interperted to
protect the rights of individuals to own
firearms.
Amendments 1-10 The Bill of Rights
•Amendment III - No Quartering
Tro op s
•Date Send to the States - Sept. 25, 1789!
•Date Adopted - Dec. 15, 1791!
•What it does - Prohibits the government
from forcing you to house & feed troops
against your will.
Amendments 1-10 The Bill of Rights
•Amendment IV - No
Unreasonable Searches &
Seizures!
•Date Send to the States - Sept. 25, 1789!
•Date Adopted - Dec. 15, 1791!
•What it does - Prohibits the government
from conducting unreasonable searches &
seizures and establishes an implied right
to privacy based on the line “secure in
their persons, houses, papers, and effects”
