On December 15, 1791, the Bill of Rights was ratified by Virginia, allowing the passage of the first ten amendments to the Constitution. Virginia was the tenth of fourteen states to ratify the ...

No Bill of Attainder...shall be passed. The Constitution prohibits both the federal government (in this clause) and the states (in Article I, Section 10, Clause 1) from passing either bills of ...

The story of the Ninth Amendment’s adoption begins with the decision by the Philadelphia convention to omit a bill of rights from the original Constitution of 1787. The absence of a bill of ...