What five rights are protected by the First Amendment? Which Amendment established the right to trial by an impartial jury?
With December 15 marking the 222nd anniversary of the Bill of Rights, you can test your knowledge with a 10-question quiz about the first ten amendments to the Constitution. A Bill of Rights Day page also poses questions on a wide range of constitutional issues and has a video of students'comments on specific guarantees of liberty under the Bill of Rights.
On December 15, 1791, Virginia became the eleventh state to ratify the first ten amendments, formally making the Bill of Rights part of the Constitution. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt first declared a national Bill of Rights Day on Dec. 15, 1941.
To learn more about the Constitution and the federal courts, see the Educational Resources section on www.uscourts.gov.
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