The Importance Of The First Ten Amendments

Our founding fathers included the ability to amend the Constitution because they understood that things change as time goes on. New problems and situations arise and must be addressed. Our founding fathers understood that the Constitution would need to be modified in the future, so they included the ability to amend it. For example, the nineteenth amendment granted women the right to vote. When our founding fathers lived, the women’s rights movement had not yet begun. This is an example of a new situation that was able to be addressed because of the constitutional amendments.
Certain amendments serve specific purposes. For example, the first ten amendments (the Bill of Rights) serve to protect and enumerate the rights of citizens and limit the power of the federal …show more content…
The first ten amendments are especially important, and our lives would be very different without them. For example, the fourth amendment prevents the government from arresting people, searching their homes or their person, or confiscating their belongings without a warrant issued on reasonable grounds. Without this important amendment, the government could arrest people without due cause. The eighth amendment prevents the government from imposing excessive bail. Without the eighth amendment, the government could unfairly impose excessive bail on whomever they please, to prevent them from leaving jail before their trial. Without the first amendment, the government could prevent people from exercising their religious beliefs, from peacefully assembling, and deny people freedom of speech and of the press. These amendments are so important because they prevent the government from having too much power. Without them, the government would have much more control over the American people. James Madison said the first ten amendments were necessary to “fortify the rights of the people against the encroachments of the