United States Bill of Rights

The Bill of Rights consists of the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States articles. These secure the population in the context of a free and democratic society - to certain fundamental, inalienable rights - on the basis of values ​​of the Enlightenment. The Bill of Rights was passed by the U.S. Congress on September 25, 1789 and ratified by 11 States. This process was completed on 15 December 1791.

The special significance of the Bill of Rights is derived from the combination with the principle of constitutional jurisdiction, that is, the rights of any person before any court of the Federation or of any state, in the last instance in the Supreme Court, enforceable, even compared to the state legislator, who did not act constitutional.

The term Bill means in Anglo-Saxon legal system actually treated a proposal in the legislative process. Since the famous English Bill of Rights also an effective "law of rights " is so called. The original copy of the Federal Government in the National Archives of the United States.

List of Amendment to the Bill of Rights