The first ten amendments that we have come to call the “Bill of Rights” have a lot going for them. But the legal form that the first generation of ratifiers settled on using set a very bad ...

America’s increasingly crowded public square was often filled with hostility, becoming an angry arena where people shout past one another across religious and ideological divides.

The First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was initially adopted is 1791 and simply states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise ...

The first ten Amendments to the Constitution protect all of the basic freedoms of Americans and are known as the Bill of Rights. The most famous are perhaps the first, second and fifth Amendments.