The story of how we gained our Bill of Rights shows the influence of the states 233 years ago, and it can remind us of the ...

The Social Security Fairness Act is expected to be signed Monday, according to advocates for police and firefighters.

Americans believed they were vulnerable to oppression. In England, Catholic rulers prohibited their Protestant subjects from owning firearms, and the English Bill of Rights corrected that ...

The Ohio Legislature passed what has been dubbed a “Parents’ Bill of Rights” on Wednesday, sending it to the Republican ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! On December 15, 1791, the Bill of Rights was ratified by Virginia, allowing the passage of the first ten amendments to the Constitution.

In fact, although we have had a Bill of Rights in England since 1689, on which much of the American Bill of Rights is based (including, amazingly, the right to bear arms), we are very poorly ...

Progress has already been made in Massachusetts with the Bill of Rights for Victims of Sexual Assault. After a day spent in the Massachusetts State House, Nguyen and her Rise co-workers spent 14 ...

The Bill of Rights, or the first 10 amendments to the ... Many people interpret this to simply mean that any laws preventing an American from having weapons are unconstitutional.