Lesson 32: How Do the Fifth, Sixth, and Eighth Amendments Protect Rights within the Judicial System?
Bill of Rights, as submitted for ratification
The Bill of Rights as it was submitted to the states for ratification. It included a preamble and ten proposed amendments to the U.S. Constitution.
Link: https://bit.ly/2odaRsY
English Bill of Rights 1689
Act passed by the British Parliament in 1689 enumerating rights of British subjects and residents.
Link: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/england.asp
Federalist No. 80
From Wikipedia: Federalist No. 80 is an essay by Alexander Hamilton. Its title is "Powers of the Judiciary," and is the third in a series of six essays discussing the powers and limitations of the judicial branch.
Link: http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa80.htm
Habeas Corpus Act 1679
The Habeas Corpus Act 1679 is an act of the English Parliament defining and strengthening habeas corpus, by which a detainee who has appealed to the judiciary must either be set free or have a charge brought against him.
Link: http://www.bl.uk/learning/timeline/item104236.html
Jefferson to Edmund Pendleton 1776
A letter from Thomas Jefferson to Virginia Convention president Edmund Pendleton on August 26, 1776.
Link: http://tinyurl.com/ycab2ol
Magna Carta
From Wikipedia: Magna Carta, is an English legal charter, originally issued in 1215. Magna Carta required King John to proclaim certain rights, respect certain legal procedures, and accept that his will could be restricted by the law.
Link: http://www.constitution.org/eng/magnacar.htm
Massachusetts Body of Liberties, 1641
From Wikipedia: The Massachusetts Body of Liberties was the first legal code to be established by European colonists in New England.
Link: https://history.hanover.edu/texts/masslib.html
Montesquieu--The Spirit of Laws, 1748
In this political treatise Montesquieu advocates the idea that political and legal institutions ought to reflect the social and geographical character of each particular community, that governments need not be permanent.
Link: https://goo.gl/N4Lrkj
Petition of Right
From Wikipedia: The Petition of Right is a major English constitutional document, which sets out specific liberties of the subject that the king is prohibited from infringing.
Link: http://www.britannia.com/history/docs/petition.html
United States Bill of Rights
From Wikipedia: In the United States, the Bill of Rights is the name by which the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution are known. They were introduced by James Madison to the First United States Congress in 1789 as a series of articles, and came into effect on December 15, 1791, when they had been ratified by three quarters of the states.
Link: http://www.constitution.org/billofr_.htm
United States Constitution
The supreme law of the United States that provides the framework for the government. The Constitution outlines the nation's institutions of government and the most important rights of the people. The document was created in 1787 during the Philadelphia Convention. The government created by the Constitution took effect on March 4, 1789.
Link: http://civiced.org/constitution
