The Importance Of The First Ten Amendments

The first ten amendments of the constitution, known as the Bill of Rights, can be applicable through the Fourteenth Amendments to ensure that state laws do not interfere with the rights of the citizens. This process is known as selective incorporation. The Bill of Rights allows allows citizens to freedom of speech, the right to bear arms, the right to an attorney, protection against cruel and unusual punishment, and other rights that protect citizens. At the time, certain powers were exclusive to the federal government, while others were exclusive to states. This was a problem because the Bill of Rights was protected under the federal government and not the states. This meant that the Bill of Rights had limited protection against the citizens. The Bill of Rights also included the right for citizens to have privacy. Our lives would be invaded if there was no laws that protected us. Selectively incorporating other Bill of Rights into the Fourteenth Amendment to protect citizens from state action were incorporated because of several cases such as. In the case of Gitlow vs. New York the argument was that Gitlow had no right to express how he felt against the government, but Gitlow was protected under the First Amendment of freedom of …show more content…
United States. The Fourth Amendment protects an individual from being arrested if there are only speculations of crime that was possibly committed. This Amendment is important because In the Whren v. United States, the individual was cited for a minor traffic violation when indeed the police officer had done because the police officer speculated that the individual was a drug dealer. The supreme court favored the individual that there was not actual evidence that could support that what he stopped for was the actual reason. Under this Amendment, hospitals are prohibited from letting law enforcements know of any illegal drugs found through testing like in the Ferguson v.