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→Bill of Rights [Amendments 1-10]
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* known collectively as the "Bill of Rights" (BOR) | * known collectively as the "Bill of Rights" (BOR) | ||
* BOR protects certain individual rights from "infringement" by the federal government | * BOR protects certain individual rights from "infringement" by the federal government | ||
* | * the essential BOR protection is of individual belief and expression in speech, religion, press, assembly & petition | ||
* | * the BOR does not establish those rights, it protects rights that already exist | ||
** instead, it prohibits the government from violating those rights | |||
Issues, problems & limits: | Issues, problems & limits: | ||
* as originally enacted and interpreted by the Courts, the BOR did not apply to the states | * as originally enacted and interpreted by the Courts, the BOR did not apply to the states | ||