the Bill of Rights

noun phrase

: the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution

Certain freedoms are guaranteed to all Americans by the Bill of Rights.

Examples of the Bill of Rights in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Founding Father James Madison included this important bulwark against governmental overreaching in his introductory draft of the Bill of Rights, and it was then incorporated into the United States Constitution and many of the individual state constitutions. —Barbara Jaffe, New York Daily News, 4 Mar. 2026

Advertisement Such intervention has only occurred twice since the Bill of Rights and the Act of Settlement (enacted in 1689 and 1701, respectively) established parliament’s ability to amend the terms of succession for the British Crown. —Callum Sutherland, Time, 26 Feb. 2026

Fewer still can explain the Bill of Rights. —Robert Casper, Boston Herald, 24 Feb. 2026

The grand jury really dates back to before the Bill of Rights, but for our purposes it’s memorialized in the Fifth Amendment within the Bill of Rights. —John E. Jones Iii, The Conversation, 11 Feb. 2026

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