The United States Bill of Rights
The Bill of Rights is the collective name for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. Proposed to assuage the fears of Anti-Federalists who had opposed Constitutional ratification, these amendments guarantee a number of personal freedoms, limit the government's power in judicial and other proceedings, and reserve some powers to the states and the public. While originally the amendments applied only to the federal government, most of their provisions have since been applied to the states by way of the Fourteenth Amendment, a process known as incorporation. The Bill of Rights had little judicial impact for the first 150 years of its existence, but was the basis for many Supreme Court decisions of the 20th and 21st centuries. An audio recording of the United States Bill of Rights. Go to LearnOutLoud.com to download this and more Founding Documents on mp3. www.learnoutloud.com/Audio-Books/Politics/U.S.-Government/The-Founding-Documents-of-the-United-States-of-America/19039
