Bill+of+Rights

=**Outline the protections that //__each__// of the Amendments in the Bill of Rights provides: **= =(Jatin Kumar)=

Dania Delfino
**1st Amendment: **  **Freedom of Speech, Press, Religion and Petition **   **What it protects: **  The first amendment protects the right of each person living in america to practice their own religion regardless of the norm of where they stay. It also protects the right to free speech, meaning that you have the right to voice your opinion wherever you are. It also protects your right to come together and petition against the government for a redress of grievances. **2nd Amendment: **  **Right to keep and bear arms **   **What it protects: **  It protects our right to have protection of our country. It means that the people also can hold guns without the infringement of the law, however this means to obtain a licence to own the gun and protect yourself. **3rd Amendment: **  **Conditions for quarters of soldiers **   **What it protects: **  Soldiers that are serving in our army cannot force their way into our houses for protection and other resources, without the consent of the homeowner, even if it is during the heat of war. **4th Amendment: **  **Right of search and seizure regulated **   **What it protects: **  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> Authority and other people have no right to search or seize your belongings, however they can if they have a warrant. HOwever if there are other reasonable causes that cause suspicion authority and initiative can be taken to seize the person. **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">5th Amendment: **  **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Provisions concerning prosecution **   **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What it protects: **  <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">No one in america even when in commitment of a crime shall be held to answer to the capital, unless there is a presentment or indictment to the grand jury. Even during the time war the writ of habeas corpus is still in active duty. If you have committed the same act twice there should not be any danger to your life or limb, and you are not compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against themselves, that way your protection of life, liberty, and property are intact. And private property should not be taken for public use without compensation. **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">6th Amendment: ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Right to a speedy trial, witnesses, etc. ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">What it protects: ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The 6th Amendment protects the accused because the state has a lot of power when it comes to convicting someone of a crime, this Amendment protects them. It grants the accused a speedy and public trial, an impartial jury of their peers, 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; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense. **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">7th Amendment: ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Right to trial by jury ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **What it protects:** When there is a civil case that exceeds a certain sum of money, (not twenty dollars anymore), the right of trial of jury is observed so that both sides are examined and judged by the public. **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">8th Amendment: ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Excessive bail, cruel punishment ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **What it protects:** The government cannot impose excessive bails, rather a bail that are suitable for the crime that has been committed. When in custody or in the process of arrest there shall be no cruel or unusual punishments, meaning that the people that arrest cannot do something that is excessive and can harm you in anyway unless you ignite a trigger first. **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">9th Amendment: ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rule of construction of Constitution ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **What it protects:** The constitution cannot be interpreted in order to oppress a certain group, rather the constitution is meant to bridge the right of freedom. Without the consent of the governed all sense of the democracy is ruined. Everyone should have the same rights and should not be denied the basic human rights that are in the constitution, and that way the constitution should not be interpreted towards one group. **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #800080; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">10th Amendment: ** **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 19px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Rights of the States under Constitution ** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; display: block; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> **What it protects:** The powers that are not mentioned in the constitution is left to the states that the citizen is contesting to decide. The people in the end are the main source of what is right and wrong and if the Constitution does not illustrate what to do it is left for the people and their state to decide what to enumerate on the certain subject.