Lesson 27: What Are Bills of Rights and What Kinds of Rights Does the U.S. Bill of Rights Protect?
What are bills of rights and how have they evolved? (Video)
Bills of rights; English Bill of Rights of 1689; state constitutions and bills of rights; Founders' disputes over necessity of a bill of rights in the federal Constitution; James Madison's role in the addition of the Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution.
Student Questions: Unit 5, Lesson 27, Sections 1-8 (pdf download)
What questions are useful in examining and understanding bills of rights? (Video)
Questions useful in examining and understanding bills of rights; types and sources of rights in bills of rights; who can hold rights.
What kinds of rights are protected by the Bill of Rights? (Video)
Positive and negative rights; personal, economic, and political rights; protections of rights in the body of the Constitution, Bill of Rights, and other amendments.
What are the meaning and importance of the Ninth and Tenth Amendments? (Video)
Meaning and importance of the Ninth and Tenth Amendments; issue regarding the Ninth Amendment, Tenth Amendment, and limitations on federal government; the anti-commandeering doctrine.
What rights are protected in the body of the Constitution? (Video)
Rights protected in the body of the Constitution; antecedents in Magna Carta and English Bill of Rights; rights in Articles I, III, and VI; changes in scope of impact of the Bill of Rights; Barron v. Baltimore (1833) and the Fourteenth Amendment; public ignorance of reasons for the Bill of Rights and its provisions.
How do the rights contained in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights reflect the influence of classical republicanism and natural rights philosophy? (Video)
How do the rights contained in the Constitution and the Bill of Rights reflect the influence of classical republicanism and natural rights philosophy?
How have attitudes about the Bill of Rights changed since 1791? (Video)
Changing attitudes towards the Bill of Rights and the Second Amendment.
How should one examine the Bill of Rights? (Video)
Examining the Bill of Rights: holistic versus phrase-by-phrase analysis.
Federalist 84 (Video)
A reading of Alexander Hamilton's Federalist 84.
The Ninth Amendment & Unenumerated Rights (Video)
Dr. Justin Wert outlines two distinct ways of interpreting the Ninth Amendment's guarantee of unenumerated rights.
The Fifth Virginia Convention (Audio)
A discussion about the Virginia Declaration of Rights and its contribution to the Bill of Rights and American Constitution. By the Colonial Williamsburg podcast.
Unit 5 Overview: We the People: The Citizen & the Constitution Level 3 Text (Audio)
Scholars Margaret Branson, Sue Leeson, and Scott Casper present Unit 5 of the new We the People student text. Although this discussion deals with the third (2008) edition of the We the People text, the concepts are the same. Size: 3.1 mb. Length: 3 min, 24 sec.
