Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! On December 15, 1791, the Bill of Rights was ratified by Virginia, allowing the passage of the first ten amendments to the Constitution.

First introduced in 1923, the Equal Rights Amendment has met the requirements for ratification. But its constitutionality is still an open question.

Supporters of ratification quickly converged on a defense of the decision to omit a bill of rights that was first articulated by Philadelphia Framer James Wilson. Wilson defended the Framers ...

We have hired a government to protect our speech, not to tell us how to live. Instead, it does whatever will keep it in power ...

So many states feared the expanded powers of the new national government that they insisted on amendments during the Constitution's ratification ... which became the Bill of Rights in 1791 ...

When Congress and the states ratified the Fourteenth Amendment ... Before then, the Bill of Rights and its manifold protections only protected Americans from the actions of the federal government.

However, the next question is whether the bill requires ratification by states has been ... another senior advocate Sanjoy Ghosh said, "If the rights of the state legislature are being curtailed ...