what year was the 1st amendment ratified and its purpose?
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The firs amendment is part of the bill of rights, which was ratified in 1791.  It protects the freedom of religion, freedom of speech, freedom to assemble, freedom to petition, etc.  The followinig sources are great for learning about the first amendment...\n\nAlso, check out this blurb.\n\nCONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW RESPECTING AN ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION, OR PROHIBITING THE FREE EXERCISE THEREOF; OR ABRIDGING THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, OR OF THE PRESS; OR THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE PEACEABLY TO ASSEMBLE, AND TO PETITION THE GOVERNMENT FOR A REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES.
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The 4th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States;\n\nThe right of the people to be secure in thier persons, house, papers, and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.\n\nThats how it reads, however it has been left to interpretation by any number of authorities. In my interpretation probable cause was required to obtain a warrant in order to search , not cause for search.......\n\nHowever there have been so many other changes to our Constitution that the original bill of rights is mostly just a memory, and has been used and abused by the crooked, the greedy and the power hungry for too long\n\nVOTE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION....\nso that "We the People" can retake our country and reinstate our freedoms\n\nPeace to all...now more than ever...
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No... Why? First Amendment rights. Freedom of speech.
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The Bill of Rights are the original 10 amendments to the Constitution. The Founding Fathers felt uneasy as they thought their Constitution did not do enough to protect the basic Civil Liberties of the American people so they created the Bill of Rights (hence the name.) The Bill of Rights covers things like freedom of the press, right to trial, equal protection under the law, and the right to own a bear arms. The Federalist Papers are explanations written by the Founding Fathers in hope to clear up some of the incredibly vague language used.
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Treaty of Paris, 1783 \nArticles of Confederation, 1787\nU.S. Constitution, 1789\nBill of Rights, 1789, but after the text of the Constitution to make the document more palatable to the states
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Section 1. -After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. \n\nSection 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. \n\nSection 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.\n\n\n\nAmendment XVIII (the Eighteenth Amendment) of the United States Constitution, along with the Volstead Act (which defined "intoxicating liquors"), established Prohibition in the United States.\n\n\nHistory\nThe senate passed the amendment on December 18, 1917. The amendment was ratified on January 16, 1919, having been approved by 36 states. It went into effect one year later on January 16, 1920.\n\nWhen Congress submitted this amendment to the states for ratification, it was the first time that a proposed amendment had a provision that placed a deadline on ratification. The validity of the amendment was challenged on that basis in Dillon v. Gloss. The Supreme Court ruled on the case in 1921, upholding the constitutionality of such deadlines.\n\nThe amendment was subsequently repealed by the Twenty-First Amendment on December 5, 1933, making it the only provision in the Constitution to be explicitly modified.\n\nThe ramifications of the 18th Amendment, which will live on to be remembered as "Prohibition", have reached into today. The Amendment eternally changed the notion that localized crime could not evolve into a full-fledged mafia syndicate; while also removing the facade of a utopian society without alcohol (or any other drug, for that matter) in its veins, because it is just one of the many luxuries that make up the plasma in the American bloodstream. Prohibition changed the lives and roles of moonshiners and rum-runners, transforming them, along their product, into the lifeblood of American speakeasies and mob dons, forever revolutionizing the American dream and image.
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James Madison drafted the Bill of Rights which was ratified by the First United States Congress.  Madison based his draft on George Mason's Virginia Declaration of Rights.
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It was among the earliest state constitutions.  Actually, it was written before the Constitution of the United States (1787).
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The bill of rights is the first 10 ammendmants to the constitution.
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Dear Friend,\n\nDo you mean "which amendments to the Constitution contained in the Bill of Rights had the most impact on businesses"?  If so, I would say the First Amendment.  Not only does it provide explicit safe haven for our huge media, news, and entertainment industries, the First Amendment protects vital commercial free speech (including advertising, political expenditures, and lobbying).\n\nOr do you mean, "Which amendments to the Constitution subsequent to the Bill of Rights have had the most impact on business"?  If that's the question, I'd say the 14th amendment.  That amendment, intended for the protection of newly-freed African Americans, set forth:\n\n"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws. "\n\nBut "person" was deemed to include corporate as well as natural persons, so corporations finally obtained due process rights.\n\nYour Friend,\nFrancesois
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To the US Constitution? 27 amendments have been ratified \n\nThe 27th Amendment was proposed back in the 1780s but only ratified in 1992.
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The first constitution of the United States was passed by Congress in 1787, but not ratified until 1781, replaced by the present Constitution in 1789.\n\nThe Federalist Papers were written and published during the years 1787 and 1788 in several New York State newspapers to persuade New York voters to ratify the proposed constitution.\n\nOn December 15, 1791, the new United States of America adopted the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments to the  U.S. Constitution, confirming the fundamental rights of its citizens.
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The Bill of Rights--the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States--ranks alongside the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence as one of the nation's most treasured documents. Since its adoption in 1791, the Bill of Rights has served as the cornerstone of basic American freedoms. Its laws specify the fundamental rights and most cherished liberties of the American people and protect them from the whims of popular majority opinions and abusive government officials.\nWhat the Bill of Rights Says\n\nThe first eight amendments of the Bill of Rights set forth specific guarantees and liberties. The Ninth Amendment acknowledges that the American people have rights that are not even specified in the Constitution or the Bill of Rights. (The Federalists argued for this particular amendment, stating that it would be impossible to list all of the rights and liberties that should be protected.)\n\nThe Tenth Amendment emphasizes the national character of the United States constitutional system. It declares that the states or people retain those "powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution."\n\nMost people, however, believe that their most important rights are those guaranteed by the First Amendment. Commonly called "First Amendment freedoms," these are the fundamental freedoms of religion, speech, and press, as well as the right of the people to assemble and to petition a government.\n\nOther vital provisions contained in the first eight amendments also deal with the rights of individuals. They are designed to protect people against inconsistent or abusive government, particularly in criminal proceedings.\n\nFor example, the Fourth Amendment protects individuals from unreasonable searches and seizures (either of themselves or of their property and possessions) by law enforcement officials.\n\nThe Fifth Amendment prohibits double jeopardy, which means that someone cannot be tried twice for the same crime. The Fifth Amendment also states that people cannot be compelled to testify against themselves (self-incrimination), and it guarantees "due process," which means people accused of a crime must be properly notified of the charges and given a fair hearing.\n\nThe Sixth Amendment establishes the right of an accused person to a public trial by jury. The accused also has the right to have a lawyer, to confront hostile witnesses, and to obtain witnesses in his or her defense.\n\nFinally, the Eighth Amendment prohibits the infliction of "cruel and unusual punishments" (either mental or physical) on those convicted of a crime.\n\nThe remaining amendments (the Second, Third, and Seventh) do not cover individual rights in criminal proceedings but address other specific concerns. The Second Amendment is the most noteworthy and controversial of these remaining amendments. After noting the need for a "well regulated militia" (a body of citizen soldiers called to serve during times of emergency or war), this amendment declares that the people's right "…to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed."\n\nThe Third Amendment prevents the government from making citizens shelter soldiers in their homes. This amendment was drafted in response to abuses by British forces during the Revolutionary War.\n\nThe Seventh Amendment was included to meet the demands of many Anti-Federalists who wanted to insure trial by jury in civil suits.\n\nToday, for all intents and purposes, the fundamental rights and liberties guaranteed by the Bill of Rights apply with equal force to both the national and the state governments.\n\nState Bills of Rights\n\nAll of the fifty state constitutions contain a bill of rights. The Illinois Bill of Rights borrows from the Declaration of Independence in stating, "All men are by nature free and independent and have certain inherent and unalienable rights among which are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Some
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Prior to it, members of the US Congress were chosen by state legislators rather than election by the people. In the time leading up to its creation, several seats were empty because of partisan bickering in certain states. (Indiana had a seat sitting empty for two years.) Bribery and coersion were also problematic at times. By 1912, many states had begun electing their representatives by popular vote, and those selected in this way tended to be strong proponent of amending the US Constitution to make that federal law.\n\nIt was passed by Congress on May 13, 1912, and was ratified on April 8, 1913.
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1865- Lincoln shot\n1852- Harriet Beecher published Uncle Tom's Cabin\n1868- fourteenth amendment radified, nationalized citizenship.\n1873- Slaughterhouse case, a distinction between national and state citizenship was drawn.\n1776- first state constitution of Virginia, George Mason declared general warrants were oppressive and should not be granted.\n1787, (testing 1776) the house of Benjamin Frisbee was searched for stolen pork. The Superior Court ruled the search unconstitutional.\n1914- Weeks vs. United States- Weeks was arrested without a warrant for attempting to conduct a lottery by mail.The Supreme Court ruled in his favor, stating the arrest and search were unlawful.\n1743-First town meeting held in America at Boston's Faneuil Hall.\n1913-direct election of senatorsadopted with the 17th amendment.\n1916-Woodrow Wilson sent soldiers into Mexico after Poncho Villa, the bandit.
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http://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/index.php/First_amendment\nhttp://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment01/\nhttp://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.billofrights.html\nHere are 3
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The Bill of Rights consists of the first 10 amendments to the Constitution.  The founding fathers knew that it would take more time than they had to put together a Bill of Rights for the original constitution so they agreed to add one later instead.