Note: The following text is a transcription of the first ten amendments to the Constitution in their original form. These amendments were ratified December 15, 1791, and form what is known as the ...

As the Trump administration tests the limits of presidential power, here's a look at what the U.S. Constitution says.

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 ...

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 First Amendment is widely considered to be the most important part of the Bill of Rights. It protects the ... and innovative concepts in the U.S. Constitution, although the word never appears ...

which became the Bill of Rights in 1791, was a protection of state power. The new Tenth Amendment stated: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it ...

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 ...

The U.S. Constitution enshrines rights to Americans and imposes restrictions on government officials that regulate the president's power, as laid out in the Bill of Rights and other constitutional ...