Bill of Rights
Thomas Jefferson helped to write the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It made clear that the Declaration protected the rights and liberty of the people. But many states feared that the British can copy the US government and suppress their citizenship. To make sure that this will never happen they add on the Constitution the Bill of Rights.
In the First Amendment it says that the people rights; free speech, assembly, and petition; cannot taken away. (our intellectual rights)
The Second Amendment is about bear arms. It secures that people should keep and bear arms.
The Third Amendment is about quartering soldiers in private homes except in wartime.
The Fourth Amendment prohibits unreasonable searches and seizures of persons and property, even reasonable searches must be made on probable cause.
Amendments Five and Six are about our due process rights. The Fifth requires a grand jury for "infamous crimes," prohibits double jeopardy (being tried twice for the same crime), and allows a defendant to refuse to testify against himself. The Sixth provides protection in criminal proceedings.
The Seventh Amendment provides for trial by jury in civil suits where the value in dispute is more than twenty dollars.
The Eight Amendment prohibits inflated bail or fines and terrible unusual punishment.
The Ninth and Tenth Amendments are about the State Rights or limits on the Federal Constitution.
The Americans still have and live under the Bill of Rights. This document protects the freedoms and rights of the American people a lot. No one can take our rights away, not even the government. America is split into two parties. Some people are Federalists (Democrat), they support a strong federal government, and other people are Antifederalists (Republican), they opposes the concept of Federalism. Overall the Bill of Rights protects the rights of Americans.