How to Use the Bill of Rights in a Sentence

the Bill of Rights

noun phrase
  • The first 10 amendments are known as the Bill of Rights.
    Olivia Munson, USA TODAY, 25 Apr. 2023
  • That is the kind of freedom that was enshrined in the Bill of Rights.
    Binyamin Appelbaum, Foreign Affairs, 16 Feb. 2021
  • But the Bill of Rights was ratified more than eight years after the Treaty of Paris was signed.
    Rich Logis, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2023
  • This acceptance of what became the Bill of Rights has been pivotal to the way Britain is governed since.
    Victoria Murphy, Town & Country, 18 Apr. 2023
  • The last amendment was approved in 1992, and that was a provision that had been proposed along with others that became the Bill of Rights.
    Dan Balz and Clara Ence Morse, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Aug. 2023
  • Liberals also scoff at the notion that the authors of the Bill of Rights could have envisioned modern assault rifles.
    Kevin Rector, Los Angeles Times, 7 Feb. 2024
  • Marshall memorized key parts of the Constitution, especially the Bill of Rights.
    Nikole Hannah-Jones, New York Times, 13 Mar. 2024
  • In the massachusetts statehouse, high above the gallery in the house of representatives, directly opposite the painting of John Hancock proposing the Bill of Rights, there hangs a five-foot-long wooden codfish.
    Robert Kunzig, Discover Magazine, 11 Nov. 2019
  • And while numerous factors were considered in its text and inclusion in the Bill of Rights the most important goal of the Second was to prevent the federal government from starting a professional army.
    Rich Logis, The New Republic, 19 Apr. 2023
  • Beyond the economic sphere, freedom means championing the First Amendment — indeed all of the Bill of Rights — rejecting speech codes, and tolerating differences of opinion.
    Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 9 Jan. 2024

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