|
| |
| | Bill of rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | A bill of rights that is written into the constitution of a country is a constitutional bill of rights. | | | Infringement of rights protected by a bill of rights (such as by repeal of statutory protections or by statutory infringement of constitutionally protected rights) may cause civil unrest, civil disobedience or even revolution. | | | A bill of rights is a statement of certain rights which, under a society's laws, citizens and/or residents either have, want to have, or ought to have. |
|
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_Rights
(676 words)
|
|
| |
| | Bill of Rights 1689 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Bill of Rights 1689 is not a bill of rights, in the sense of a statement of certain rights that citizens and/or residents of a free and democratic society have (or ought to have), but rather addresses only the rights of Parliamentarians sitting in Parliament as against the Crown. | | | The Bill of Rights 1689 is a predecessor of the United States Constitution, the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the European Convention on Human Rights. | | | The Bill of Rights was invoked in New Zealand in the 1976 case of Fitzgerald v Muldoon and Others. |
|
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_of_Rights_(England)
(1216 words)
|
|
| |
| | United States Bill of Rights - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | In the United States of America, the Bill of Rights is the term for the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. | | | The English Bill of Rights (1689), one of the fundamental documents of English law, differed substantially in form and intent from the American Bill of Rights, because it was intended to address only the rights of Parliamentarians sitting in Parliament against the Crown. | | | Baltimore, the Supreme Court specifically ruled that the Bill of Rights provided "security against the apprehended encroachments of the general government—not against those of local governments." However, in the 1925 judgment on Gitlow v. |
|
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights
(3855 words)
|
|
| |
| | Today in History: December 15 |
| | The United States Supreme Court is entrusted with the power to void acts of Congress which it finds to be in conflict with the Constitution or specifically with the Bill of Rights when the constitutionality of the acts arises in litigation. | | | The Bill of Rights draws influence and inspiration from the Magna Carta (1215), the English Bill of Rights (1689), and various later efforts in England and America to expand fundamental rights. | | | See the organization's feature In the Courts which highlights current Supreme Court cases which involve rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights. |
|
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/today/dec15.html
(762 words)
|
|
| |
| | Bill of Rights |
| | The Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791. | | | Explain to the class that the Bill of Rights is the 1st 10 amendments made to the Constitution. | | | The Bill of Rights, written by James Madison were the first additions, or amendments made to the Constitution. |
|
http://www.uen.org/Lessonplan/preview.cgi?LPid=533
(1055 words)
|
|
| |
| | Constitutional Topic: The Bill of Rights - The U.S. Constitution Online - USConstitution.net |
| | This process of incorporating parts of the Bill of Rights because of their connection to due process began to run in parallel with the selective incorporation doctrine, where parts of the Bill of Rights were ruled to be enforceable on the states by virtue of the 14th Amendments, whether or not due process applied. | | | For the most part, this was not an issue, because the state constitutions all had bills of rights, and many of the rights protected by the states mirrored those in the federal Bill, and many went further than the federal Bill. | | | As to the Bill of Rights being a bar to federal acts, the Bill took some knocks in the first years of the new nation. |
|
http://www.usconstitution.net/consttop_bor.html
(1751 words)
|
|
| |
| | Documents - Constitution - 1996 - Chapter 2 - Bill of Rights |
| | The rights in the Bill of Rights are subject to the limitations contained or referred to in section 36, or elsewhere in the Bill. | | | The Bill of Rights does not deny the existence of any other rights or freedoms that are recognised or conferred by common law, customary law or legislation, to the extent that they are consistent with the Bill. | | | The Bill of Rights applies to all law, and binds the legislature, the executive, the judiciary and all organs of state. |
|
http://www.info.gov.za/documents/constitution/1996/96cons2.htm
(3892 words)
|
|
| |
| | Hong Kong Bill of Rights Ordinance 1991 |
| | The above-mentioned rights shall not be subject to any restrictions except those which are provided by law, are necessary to protect national security, public order (ordre public), public health or morals or the rights and freedoms of others, and are consistent with the other rights recognized in this Bill of Rights. | | | Sentence of death may be imposed only for the most serious crimes in accordance with the law in force at the time of the commission of the crime and not contrary to the provisions of this Bill of Rights and to the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. | | | In the determination of any criminal charge against him, or of his rights and obligations in a suit at law, everyone shall be entitled to a fair and public hearing by a competent, independent and impartial tribunal established by law. |
|
http://www.hknet.com/Inform/billor.html
(3153 words)
|
|
| |
| | English Bill of Rights - Free Encyclopedia |
| | The English Bill of Rights can be regarded as a predecessor of the United States Constitution. | | | The Bill of Rights was a major step in the evolution of the British government towards parliamentary supremacy, and the curtailment of the rights of the monarchy. | | | The basic tenets of the Bill of Rights were: |
|
http://www.wacklepedia.com/e/en/english_bill_of_rights.html
(325 words)
|
|
| |
| | |
| | The Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution, were instituted to protect individuals against abuse of power by their own government. | | | The fact that the inalienable rights embodied in the political philosophy of the Declaration of Independence was not included in the original text of the United States Constitution is at first a disturbing thought. | | | During the ratification conventions in each state, amendments to the Constitution in the form of a Bill of Rights were discussed. |
|
http://www.rain.org/~karpeles/billrightsdisc.html
(820 words)
|
|
| |
| | Happy Bill of Rights Day by Anthony Gregory |
| | I celebrate Bill of Rights Day, not out of some delusion that we have the enumerated and unenumerated freedoms protected by the document, nor with some nostalgia for a past when the Bill of Rights was perfectly obeyed. | | | But Bill of Rights Day is still a good time to think of that document, which comes as close to a libertarian founding legal charter as any in the world. | | | Whether or not the Bill of Rights can ever be an effective means of limiting the government is open to debate. |
|
http://www.lewrockwell.com/gregory/gregory49.html
(985 words)
|
|
| |
| | Welcome to the U.S. Bill of Rights |
| | Father of the Constitution and The Bill of Rights | | | But not everyone agreed that this bill of rights was necessary. | | | To reach an agreement, James Madison promised to add a bill of rights to the Constitution. |
|
http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/score_lessons/bill_of_rights
(395 words)
|
|
| |
| | ICL - New Zealand - Bill of Rights Act 1990 |
| | Subject to Section 4 of this Bill of Rights, the rights and freedoms contained in this Bill of Rights may be subject only to such reasonable limits prescribed by law as can be demonstrably justified justified in a free and democratic society. | | | Except where the provisions of this Bill of Rights otherwise provide, the provisions of this Bill of Rights apply, so far as practicable, for the benefit of all legal persons as well as for the benefit of all natural persons. | | | (c) Shall have the right to have the validity of the arrest or detention determined without delay by way of habeas corpus and to be released if the arrest or detention is not lawful. |
|
http://www.oefre.unibe.ch/law/icl/nz01000_.html
(1638 words)
|
|
| |
| | Congress for Kids |
| | Explore Constitutional rights and learn how these freedoms are protected by the Bill of Rights and the Amendments. | | | Match a protected right with the appropriate amendment in the US Bill of Rights. |
|
http://www.congressforkids.net/games/billofrights/2_billofrights.htm
(632 words)
|
|
| |
| | The Constitution of the United States of America |
| | Texas, 388 U.S. 18 (1967), Chief Justice Warren for the Court said that the Court has ``increasingly looked to the specific guarantees of the [Bill of Rights] to determine whether a state criminal trial was conducted with due process of law.'' And in Benton v. | | | Implied reservations of individual rights, without which the social compact could not exist, and which are respected by all governments entitled to the name.'' --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Fourteenth Amendment.--Following the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment, litigants disadvantaged by state laws and policies first resorted unsuccessfully to the privileges and immunities clause of Sec. | | | Whatever would be a violation of the original bill of rights (Amendments I to VIII) if done by the federal government is now equally unlawful by force of the Fourteenth Amendment if done by a state. |
|
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/constitution/html/bright.html
(2599 words)
|
|
| |
| | Welcome to The American Presidency |
| | The Bill of Rights became part of the Constitution of the United States on December 15, 1791. | | | The Illinois Bill of Rights borrows from the Declaration of Independence in stating, "All men are by nature free and independent and have certain inherent and unalienable rights among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Some states' declaration of rights are even far more detailed than the national Bill of Rights. | | | The courts, both state and national, are responsible for enforcing the Bill of Rights, when instances of abuse are brought to their attention through proper legal channels. |
|
http://ap.grolier.com/article?assetid=a2002810-h&templatename=/article/artic...
(1965 words)
|
|
| |
| | Rights of the People: Individual Freedom and the Bill of Rights |
| | Others, however, aware of the explicit rights guaranteed in earlier documents such as the British Bill of Rights (1689) and the Virginia Declaration of Rights in 1776, believed that some specific provision stating the rights of individuals was necessary. | | | As the title "The Rights of the People: Individual Freedom and the Bill of Rights" suggests, this book is our effort to explain how the core concepts of individual liberty and individual rights have evolved under the U.S. legal system down the present day. | | | It is true that the U.S. Bill of Rights is the historical product of a particular time and place. |
|
http://usinfo.state.gov/products/pubs/rightsof/homepage.htm
(734 words)
|
|
| |
| | AAUP Summary of Academic Bill of Rights legislation |
| | Comment: (Not addressed by Statement on the Academic Bill of Rights) The U.S. Supreme Court has already ruled on this matter; legislation would be redundant and confusing. | | | AAUP Summary of Academic Bill of Rights legislation | | | "Advocates for the Academic Bill of Rights, however, make clear that they seek to enforce a kind of diversity that is instead determined by essentially political categories, like the number of Republicans or Democrats on a faculty, or the number of conservatives or liberals. |
|
http://www.aaup.org/Issues/ABOR/aborsummary3.htm
(1581 words)
|
|
| |
| | Bill of Rights - Security Edition |
| | The Bill of Rights: The First Ten Amendments to the constitution of the United States printed on sturdy, pocket-sized, pieces of metal. | | | You need to get used to offering up the bill of rights for inspection and government workers enforcing the USAPATRIOT ACT need to get used to deciding if you'll be allowed to keep the Bill of Rights with you when you travel. | | | When asked to empty your pockets, proudly toss the Bill of Rights in the plastic bin. |
|
http://www.securityedition.com
(133 words)
|
|
| |
| | Modern History Sourcebook: The Bill of Rights, 1689 |
| | That it is the right of the subjects to petition the king, and all commitments and prosecutions for such petitioning are illegal. | | | And that for redress of all grievances, and for the amending, strengthening, and preserving of the laws, parliament ought to be held frequently. | | | That levying money for or to the use of the crown by pretense of prerogative, without grant of parliament, for longer time or in other manner than the same is or shall be granted, is illegal. |
|
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1689billofrights.html
(539 words)
|
|
| |
| | DigitalConsumer.org Bill of Rights |
| | Users have the right to "time-shift" content that they have legally acquired. | | | Users have the right to "space-shift" content that they have legally acquired. | | | This gives you the right to make archival copies to be used in the event that your original copies are destroyed. |
|
http://www.digitalconsumer.org/bill.html
(291 words)
|
|
| |
| | Know your Rights! |
| | The correct United States Bill of Rights, including a archive "photo" of the original Bill of Rights as it was sent to the several states and ratified. | | | I have started with the Constitution of the United States, the U.S. Bill of Rights, the U.S. Declaration of Independence, and the Bill of Rights portions of the constitutions of the individual States. | | | Save the Republic The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. |
|
http://www.harbornet.com/rights/states.html
(1576 words)
|
|
| |
| | Amazon.com: Origins of the Bill of Rights (Yale Contemporary Law Series): Books: Leonard W. Levy |
| | Leonard Levy's Origins of the Bill of Rights is a concise monograph that traces the development of the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution from English common law through the American colonial period to the point of their inclusion into one of the world's premier documents. | | | To use an analogy, suppose all of the Framers were atheists, and that one of the amendments in the Bill of Rights specifically PROHIBITED (i.e., made illegal) the construction or existence of churches. | | | All the Bill of Rights does is to guarantee the rights we already have. |
|
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0300078021?v=glance
(2293 words)
|
|
| |
| | Bill of Rights Defense Committee |
| | The Bill of Rights Defense Committee helps people convert their concerns into meaningful action to restore protections guaranteed under the Bill of Rights and the U.S. Constitution. | | | 2271, the Sununu amendments to the PATRIOT Act reauthorization bill. | | | Many people are concerned that sections of the USA PATRIOT Act and other new laws and policies meant to prevent terrorism undermine basic civil rights and liberties. |
|
http://www.bordc.org
(353 words)
|
|
| |
| | bill of rights WebQuest |
| | In our study of the Bill of Rights, we are going to create a television news program about controversial issues today that relate to the Bill of Rights. | | | Each show will be about one of the ten amendments in the Bill of Rights. | | | You have all learned about a different part of bill of rights. |
|
http://www.bellmore-merrick.k12.ny.us/webquest/social/billofrights.html
(1491 words)
|
|
| |
| | The Property Taxpayer's Bill of Rights |
| | Assessment-related information included under the Property Taxpayer’s Bill of Rights: | | | However, if you want a receipt, you have a right to receive one. | | | For example, let’s take the hypothetical case of a residential property owned by Mr. |
|
http://www.orps.state.ny.us/pamphlet/taxbrgts.htm
(917 words)
|
|
| |
| | golf |
| | (A) The right to a speedy trial (B) The right to a public trial (C) The right to a trial in the district where the crime was committed (D) The right to appeal a conviction | | | Which Justice wrote, in a case upholding the right not to salute the American flag, "If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, or religion."? | | | (A) It didn't mention "militias" (B) It specifically protected hunting (C) It protected the right to "bear" arms, but not the right to "keep" them(D) It provided that persons with religious objections could not be compelled to bear arms |
|
http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/golf.htm
(2197 words)
|
|
| |
| | ALA Library Bill of Rights |
| | Libraries which make exhibit spaces and meeting rooms available to the public they serve should make such facilities available on an equitable basis, regardless of the beliefs or affiliations of individuals or groups requesting their use. | | | A person’s right to use a library should not be denied or abridged because of origin, age, background, or views. | | | Libraries should cooperate with all persons and groups concerned with resisting abridgment of free expression and free access to ideas. |
|
http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/statementspols/statementsif/librarybillrights.htm
(252 words)
|
|
| |
| | Schooner Bill of Rights |
| | I have information about Bill for all hands...or at least anyone who's interested. | | | At 100' high and 130' sparred length, schooner Bill of Rights is an absolutely wonderful gaff topsail schooner and home. | | | Here's Bill's early history as it came from him... |
|
http://schoonerbillofrights.blogspot.com
(393 words)
|
|
| |
| | CANOE -- JAM! Music - Pop Encyclopedia - Bill Of Rights |
| | Music - Pop Encyclopedia - Bill Of Rights | | | Did you win one of 25 free memberships to Zip.ca? | | | Live Review: Arctic Monkeys in T.O. Prince surprises fans with show |
|
http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/B/Bill_Of_Rights.html
(84 words)
|
|
| |
| | The Texas Constitution - Art 1 - BILL OF RIGHTS |
| | The Texas Constitution - Art 1 - BILL OF RIGHTS | | | 10 - RIGHTS OF ACCUSED IN CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS | | | 29 - PROVISIONS OF BILL OF RIGHTS EXCEPTED FROM POWERS OF GOVERNMENT; TO FOREVER REMAIN INVIOLATE |
|
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/txconst/articles/cn000100.html
(188 words)
|
|
|
