Bill of Rights

The Bill of Rights refers to the first ten Amendments to the Constitution , which set out individual rights and liberties . Though these rights originally only applied to the federal government, through the legal doctrine of incorporation , most of the Bill of Rights is now applied to the states through the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment .

See e.g., the First Amendment as an example.

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