what are the rights of the people in the united states?
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Gee, if there were only some kind of, oh I don't know, CONSTITUTION... or BILL OF RIGHTS.\nSeems like that would help.
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What I know is that the USA are thought to be the center of the world.It seems to me that only Americans have the right to live.
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What civil rights do we have today?
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It is "the Bill of Rights" [not 'or"]\n\nThe first 10 Amendments to the US Constitution.  They were adopted at the same time as the Constitution, and enumerate individual and other rights reserved to the states, such as freedom of speech, religion, assembly (No. 1), right to bear arms (no. 2); freedom from unreasonable search and seizure (no. 4) etc.
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Equal rights for all US born citizens and legal immigrants.\n\nAmongst others:\n-government cannot limit free speech (first amendment)\n-government cannot limit right to bear arms (second amendment, liberals try to limit this right all the time)\n-government cannot mandate a religion (though there is no specific requirement for separation of church and state)\n\netc...
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Let me offer a different perspective.\n\nThe rights of the people are inherent in the sovereign nature of the people.  This was recognized long before there was a United States Constitution.  All thirteen States (existing when the U.S. Constitution was drafted and proposed to the several States) had Constitutions and many had Bills of Rights listing various individual rights.  Listing of rights was not a new practice as many had occurred in the past such as the Petition of Rights [1628] and the Bill of Rights [1689].  Even Magna Carta [1215] could be consider a form of rights.\n\nThese acts and documents (along with many others) provided the fodder for our ever evolving Common Law which is to a significant degree based on a recognition of individual sovereignty.\n\nThere is a significant difference between those bills of rights and the one attached to the U.S. Constitution as the first 10 articles of amendments and that is due to the nature and intent of the U. S. Constitution.  This constitution was not written to protect our individual rights, such protection already existed in the Common Law and the existing Constitutions of the States and the Founders were very familiar with such a perspective.  This constitution was intended to create a general government to act in for the States in some “limited” functions.  This general government was the creature (that which was created) the contract (the constitution) as ratified by the creators (the States) acting for the people.  By the way in the Treaty of Peace [1783] article one names each State and recognizes them each as free, independent and Sovereign.  As far as I am aware such as never been recanted and only has limed mitigation through the limited delegated powers of the constitution. \n\nBecause of the experience that those of the Founder age had with general governments, there was a desire among many to include a bill of rights (not trusting the general government to adhere to the constitution).  There were others (such as Alexander Hamilton) who strongly disagreed (refer to the Federalist Papers) because they felt there was no need since the general government existed only in the delegated powers of the constitution and could do no more.  However, to get the votes from the various delegates to the constitutional convention for the newly proposed constitution, an agreement was struck to have as one of the very first acts of the new congress the drafting and proposing to the several States a “Bill of Rights.”\n\nThis occurred with James Madison assigned the task and he used the as a guide the list of rights in the then existing Virginia Constitution.  He drafted 12 and they were proposed to the legislatures of the States.  Ten of these were ratified by the States and became the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States.  These are unique in that they are less a listing of rights than they are meant of to be controls on the new general government. That is, the first 8 amendments are exclusionary in nature in they exclude the general government from specific acts.  The last two articles are declaratory statements of basic truths.  None of these ten articles convey any rights but simply recognize the existence of such rights and that the general government cannot abuse them.\n\nClearly though the years the federal general government has step by step pushed aside the meaning of the articles of the bill of rights, some steps slowly and others overtly.  The overt use of the 14th Amendment to apply the articles of the bill of rights to the States when they are singularly intended for the general government is one such use.  The slow misprinting of some amendments (changing them without an amendment) such as the second amendment which today is commonly written with three commas and yet was proposed to the State Legislatures and ratified by them with a single comma after the word State, has changed its meaning extra-constitutionally.  The meanings of the
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The United States of America
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"We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty, to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."\n\nThe simplest meaning is that the Constitution is written by and for the People, and that it derives its authority from the People, in the interests that are further outlined in the Preamble. \n\nI can't tell you what to draw - you need to draw something that represents what those simple, yet powerful, words mean to you.
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People... We enter into a social contract and make government to protect our rights.  We're willing to give up some rights to protect others. - John Locke in a nutshell.
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United States Constitution and the United States Bill of rights. The structure keeps changing but the basics pretty much remains the same.
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Are you talking about the English Magna Carta or the Constitution and Bill of Rights of the USA.???\nIt is confusing.
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Your rights are not dependant on the Constitution but predate it in Common Law.  The Constitution is specifically about creating a general government for the States.  \n\nThe Bill of rights is not a list of personal rights (refer to Article IX of the Amendments).  The first eight articles are statements excluding the federal (general) government from doing specific things.  The last two are declaratory statements of basic truths in part underscoring the fact that individual rights are to numerous too list.\n\nRead Thomas Jefferson’s Kentucky Resolution, preferably his first draft. \n\nBy the way the Constitution of the United States is not long, it is only seven Articles of which the longest only has 10 Sections.  It is written in clear, easy to understand English.
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"We the people" was line put into the preamble of the constitution when it was being written to emphasize that the new American form of government was ruled by the citizens of the land (which, compared to other governments at the time, it was), instead of by some monarch who never had to answer to citizens' wills.  \n\nWhen the Constitution was written, it basically was meant to be anyone who "mattered" in society: land owning men of European descent, the only people who could vote.  As time went on, and women and people of non-European ethnic backgrounds got more rights in the US, the meaning has expanded to encompass every citizen in the US, and some say it extends even to non-citizens.
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Let me put it to you this way:\n\nThere is such a thing as America, and there is such a thing as an American citizen and their rights, you may not deny that.\n\nWE WILL NOT SUSPEND OUR CONTSTITUTION TO ACCOMODATE YOU OR BEND TO THE WILL OF ANOTHER COUNTRY.\n\nThank You.
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the 9th amendment protects ALL other rights that aren't mentioned in the Bill of Rights. the people of the US aren't limited to JUST those rights, and all their other rights must be upheld in the court of law\n\nthat article explains it very well!
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Lincoln put it best when he said, "Government of the people, by the people and for the people shall not perish from this earth." Also the magnificent words of Thomas Jefferson. "All men are created equal. They are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. That amongst these are Life., Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness.  "  Hard to improve on the words of these two statesmen when speaking of America's values.
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"I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people, whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a Republic; a sovereign Nation of many sovereign States; a perfect Union, one and inseparable; established upon those principles of freedom, equality, justice and humanity, for which American patriots sacrificed their lives and fortunes. I therefore believe it is my duty to my Country to love it, to support its Constitution; to obey its laws; to respect its flag; and to defend it against all enemies."