After the constitution was done, the writers noted that it was giving too much power to the government. To balance the government power and give more rights to the people, they decide to include ten first amendments to the constitution, those amendments were written to …show more content…
Fifth Amendment is the right to due process of law, freedom from self-incrimination, and double jeopardy. Sixth Amendment is the right to a public trial. Seventh amendment is the right to trial by jury. Eighth amendment is the freedom from cruel and unusual punishments, and excessive bail. Ninth amendment is the enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people. Tenth amendment gives power to the states. Those are the rights that protect and guarantee freedoms and rights to the United States people. Those rights give to all of the people living in the US have the right to speak freely against the governments independently of race, gender, or religion, and what guaranty those rights are the civil liberties, which are basically the basic rights of any person. Those civil rights were achieved after centuries of evolution in slow motion. Some of the most important civil liberties in the chronological order were: 1689, the rights of English were defined, where the English bill of rights gave free of speech to it citizens; 1776, in the US declaration of independence from Britain,