What is the Bill of Rights?
The first ten amendments of the United States constitution are more commonly referred to as the “Bill of Rights,” because they set out specific rights of American citizens in order to ensure that those rights are not infringed. The Bill of Rights is modeled on many other similar documents, all of which owe their inception to the Magna Carta, the bill of rights written in England in 1215 CE. The Bill of Rights is considered to be an important part of the Constitution, and is also an integral part of popular culture; most Americans, for example, know what someone means when he or she “pleads the fifth,” a reference to the fifth amendment, which protects people from self recrimination.
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