The Bill Of Rights social studies lesson for kids

The Bill Of Rights social studies lesson for kids -  social studies skills studied in 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th grades.
If you know anything about the Constitution, you know that it has a lot of amendments. Twenty seven of them actually. But the most important of these amendments is the first ten, which makes up what we know as the Bill of Rights. The Bill of Rights is without a doubt the most important part of the Constitution, as it determines what the rights of all American citizens are. These rights are the most critical part of our society, and life as we know it would not be the same without them.
These first ten amendments state everything we believe to be an inherent right for American citizens. The very first amendment probably includes the rights you are most familiar with. These include the right to believe in any religion you want without the government harassing you, the right to free speech, the right to come together as a people and protest peacefully, and to petition the government to address problems. Continue reading below>>>

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This first amendment probably includes most of the rights you are familiar with, but a lot of people don’t know much about the other amendments, because some of them don’t have as much meaning in today’s society as they did back then. For instance, the second amendment states that every state has the right to maintain an armed militia. Back in the late 1700s, this made sense because the country wasn’t efficiently unified yet, and we didn’t really have much of a standing army. Today, with a real military, we don’t really need militias for anything.
The same goes for the third amendment, which states that soldiers can’t be housed in civilian’s homes during peace or wartime. Back then the British did that to us and we didn’t like it, which is why we wrote this particular amendment. But today that would never happen anyway, so it seems kind of useless.
Most of the other amendments deal with legal things. For instance, you have the right to privacy in your home and with your belongings. The police are not allowed to search through your property or your stuff without a warrant, and if you do go to court, you have the right to be judged impartially by a fair jury.
Ironically, even though we wrote the Constitution and the Bill of Rights after separating from the British Empire, the Constitution was actually based on an old English document called the Magna Carta. This document was very similar to the Constitution, as it established rights and liberties for people that lived under the king. This was kind of the father of the Constitution, and without it we probably wouldn’t have the freedoms we do today. But even so, we have put many of our own freedoms into our amendments, and the Bill of Rights is proof. Here in America we enjoy freedoms many people around the world do not, and it is all thanks to the great forefathers of our nation that made sure we had the rights we deserve.