BILL OF RIGHTS

Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution



Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution

Bill of Rights

The Bill of Rights, 1-10th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which came into force on 15th December 1791, the basic legal document that guarantees personal freedom and political rights of U.S. citizens. It puts an end to the concept of the divine origin of power the king and government possess, is characteristic of early medieval Europe and the era of absolutism. Back to the British Magna Carta in 1215, there is legislation to restrict the power of the king. One of the most important human rights is the inviolability of the person, the first was to enshrined in the Habeas Corpus Act of British Parliament May 27, 1679. Other rights are reserved after the revolution of 1688. Since the beginning, of the War of Independence, American states have passed laws that summarize these rules: Virginia Bill of Rights, 1776, bills of rights in the constitutions of Pennsylvania (1776), Massachusetts (1780), etc. However, during the war, guarantees of rights did not extend to the opponents of independence (Yero, 2006).

The U.S. Constitution, which created a strong federal government, did not include guarantees of individual rights against arbitrary federal authorities. Under pressure from the protests Anti-federalists J. Madison offered on June 8, 1789 to supplement the Constitution. After Virginia, the 11 of the then 14 states ratified the Bill of Rights, it became law. Originally, it considered only as a law to protect citizens from the federal government. In 1866, for the first time the 14th Amendment prohibited the states to give blacks the same rights as white, the Supreme Court in 1873 reversed that decision, considering the intolerable interference of the federal authorities in the states, but in 1925 court decision lost power, resulting in orders that “no one state shall make or ...