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The Bill of Rights are the first 10 amendments to the Constitution that is the change and the list of rights of American Citizens.

Why are the Bill of Rights important?
The Bill of Rights are important because it is a factor distributing to the approval of the Constitution. If Madison,Hamilton,and Jay did not make the Federalist papers and add the Bill of rights, Several states would not vote for the Constitution.
It is also important because it protects the rights of American citizens.
What is the process of creating the Bill of rights?
The process of creating the Bill of rights is step-by-step.
1: The states send ideas for the rights to Congress
2:Congress reviews the ideas of the 10 amendments and vote for approval
3:Sent to states for ratification
4:States approval and become part of Constitution.

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The First Amendment is the change to the constitution that protects the citizens'  rights to religion,speech,press, and assembly rights.
First, freedom of religion means that everybody has the right to choose or not choose a religious belief. For example,students in public schools can or not pray because that is their right to choose but the teachers cannot make the students pray in the school. It is the opposite with  Britain that everybody had to worship the same religion,this made people move to the United States. So, freedom of religion satisfies the citizens.
Next, freedom of speech means that people can give opinions,can talk,argue many ways but their speech can't harm,threaten other people.
Next, freedom of press means that people can give any information to the news,TV,books,internet but the information about people has to be true,not false because it could lose their reputation and affects to their lives.
Finally, freedom of assembly means that people can gather together

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The Second Amendment is about the rights to have weapons.That means everybody can own a weapon to protect themselves and family or hunt for food but have to have a permit because people use weapons for crimes such as shooting in the school and other public places.

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The Third Amendment is about the quartering troops that explains the soldiers can't live in people's houses  in a peace time or in a war time that they needed to follow the law.

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The Fourth Amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures by the official government.That means the officials has to have evidence or a good reason and a warrant to allow to search and seizure.
Some cases, reasonable searches don't need warrants from a judge.
For example, police can check cars for drugs or stolen goods or at an airport, they can check the carry-on bags for safety

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The Fifth Amendment is about protecting Americans from double jeopardy that means courts cannot put people on trial on the same crime.If a person is found not guilty  on the court,then the government cannot try to put the person back on trial.
People can remain silent during an arrest and wait for a lawyer that helps people for the person's case.
The government cannot take away the life and liberty of the person or punish them without due process of the law means without the day in court.

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The Tenth Amendment is about reserving power of the states.that means the national government has only powers listed in the Constitution and the rest of the power goes to the states.

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The Ninth Amendment is about the Constitution not being a complete list of our rights.

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The Eighth Amendment is about protecting peoples' rights to a fair and reasonable punishment.
This Amendment also forbids excessive bail.Bail is the money someone has to pay to get out of jail.
It also forbids cruel and unusual punishments.

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The Sixth Amendment is about the rights of Americans that are accused of crimes.All trials have to be a fair trial that means the jury has to be present at the trial.They have to be speedy and quick because a person waiting for their trial can't stay in jail for a long time.Jury members must not be prejudiced against the accused person. It also says that the accused  person has the right to have a lawyer.The accused person can question the people who act against the person.

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The Seventh Amendment is about protecting peoples' rights to settle civil disputes in a jury trial.