Top Ten Amendments: The Bill of Rights: On This Day, December 15
Posted by Peter Shea on Tuesday, 12/15/2015
On December 15, 1791, the Bill of Rights was ratified when Virginia approved ten of the twelve proposed constitutional amendments.
Historian Carol Berkin talks about the genesis of the first ten amendments to the Constitution and the stubborn advocacy of James Madison in insisting certain rights be explicitly laid out in ink and passed into law. What makes your list of top ten amendments?