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US Bill Of Rights Trivia Quiz Questions With Answers
What is the US Bill of Rights?
A: The Bill of Rights in the United States is the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
The Bill of Rights amendments add what to the Constitution?
A: Specific guarantees of personal freedoms and rights, clear limitations on the government's power in judicial and other proceedings, and explicit declarations that all powers not specifically delegated to Congress by the Constitution are reserved for the states or the people.
The concepts codified in these amendments are built upon those found in several earlier documents, including what?
A: The Virginia Declaration of Rights and the English Bill of Rights, along with earlier documents such as Magna Carta (1215).
In practice, the amendments had little impact on judgments by the courts for how long?
A: For the first 150 years after ratification.
Since the early 20th century both federal and state courts have used the Fourteenth Amendment to do what?
A: To apply portions of the Bill of Rights to state and local governments.
The process is known as what?
A: Incorporation.
Prior to the ratification and implementation of the United States Constitution, the thirteen sovereign states followed what?
A: The Articles of Confederation, created by the Second Continental Congress and ratified in 1781.