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The Bill of Rights
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© North Carolina Community College System
In 1787, they adopted the United States Constitution.
The Constitution told how their new
government would work.
So in 1791 Congress added the first ten amendments to the Constitution.
These first ten amendments are called
The Bill of Rights.
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Amendment 3 limits the quartering of soldiers.
Quartering is an old word. It is rarely used today. It means to
house and feed.
Before you read Amendments 6 and 7, you need to know a big difference in
criminal and civil crimes.
• A criminal wrong is punishable by jail time.
• A civil wrong is not.
Guilty!
Amendment 9 says the people have non-enumerated rights.
This means a right does not have to be named in the Constitution for the
people to have that right.
Amendment 10 gives the states all powers that the Constitution does not
give to the United States or forbid to the states.
This ends our study of the Bill of Rights.
Since the Bill of Rights, Congress has added 17 more Amendments.
We will look at them in a later lesson.