Letter to the Editor from Judith Niewiadomski Sunday December 15th was Bill of Rights Day! Did you see any mention of it in ...

When Americans today think of the Constitution, many of us think of certain cherished freedoms we hold dear: freedom of ...

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 ...

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.

Jackie Robinson was the first Black man to play Major League Baseball and is a celebrated hero of the Civil Rights Movement ...

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 ...

Madison, commonly acknowledged as the Father of the Bill of Rights, did not shy away from ... news personalities and everyday Americans have debated just what the First Amendment's protection ...

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.

24-7 vote after combining the “Parents Bill of Rights” and religious instruction measures, which previously had been in separate bills. Wednesday is the final day of the two-year legislative ...