what amendments to the Bill of rights have had the most impact on business?
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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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1.  It resulted in the passage of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments\n2.  It resulted in the old South becoming powerful again and relegating Blacks to second-class citizenship again after 1877 with the Compromise of 1877\n3.  It led to the end of the first Ku Klux Klan\n4.  It started the sharecropping economy in the South\n5.  It began the Jim Crow Era in the South\n\nBecause of the failure of Reconstruction there was a need for the civil rights movement to occur following World War II.
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1. Adding items that may have been forgotten or left out.  Example - the Bill of Rights.\n\n2. Changing to adapt to new circumstances, such as the direct-election of Senators, or giving women the right to vote.\n\n3. Correcting previous mistakes, such as revoking Prohibition or eliminating slavery.
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The change in federalism has been affected through several places in the constitution.  First, Article I, Section 8, the 'implied powers' clause.  This has been used time and time again to expand national authority; but just as much has been the product of social, economic and cultural changes in America.  The 10th amendment was ratified to CREATE a barrier to this (see Brutus ----antifederalist papers). TIme and time again, the Supreme Court has enabled this to occur (See Gibbons v Ogden, McCullough v Maryland from an historical standpoint, but most recently, the Marijuana law in California!)  The commerce clause of Article I (expressed powers of congress in Section 8) has been the MOST oft used expressed power conjoined to the implied power clause.  Hope that helps
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The Constitution.  It is the First Amendment to the Constitution.  The first 10 Amendments are referred to as the Bill of Rights.
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To set up a form of government that would protect commerce. This government was to be divided up into three groups; Legislative; Judaical and Executive. The common states were feuding over each of their own states rights in dealing with commerce. The Bill of Rights (the 1st 10 amendments) were added later at the peoples request. The Bill of Rights is a limitation on the government, even though, today, most think that the government gave them these, they did not.
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Freedom of speech is up there with freedom of religion in the First Amendment.  You think about why they wanted to put it first, and you have the importance.\n\nCivil rights generally refer to rights under the Constitution as Amended.  That is, generally about the amendments more than the body of the Constitution, except that of course it is the body that gives authority to the Amendments.\n\nSo yes, freedom of speech is one of the most precious rights we have, and we need to guard it with our lives, if necessary.  This is NOT the same thing as claiming the right to say any thing, any where, any time, at any volume.  It is a fundamental right that has to be measured against the other guy's equally fundamental right.  So we have endless case law detail on how, exactly, to implement the fundamental right of freedom of speech.  That's called Constitutional Law, and you get it in law school.\n\nI recommend going to law school to anyone who can.  Even if you never take the bar exam and practice law, the knowledge will serve you well in a variety of fields, most notably business, finance, non-profit foundations, and a host of others.
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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.
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By definition, the Bill of Rights can never be changed.  That is because it is defined as the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution.\n\nBut the Constitution itself can be amended.  The most recent is the 27th amendment, which states that when members of Congress give themselves a pay raise, they have to wait until after an election for it to take effect.  It was proposed in 1789 and ratified in 1992.
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Rights of statute :P\nBasically the stuff that companies don't want you to know about, laws and stuff, like if something isn't fit for the purpose intended you can get your money back on it,that kinda thing.
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Bill of Rights.\n\n(but Drama Guy's answer four below mine is the best)
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I would say that it has forced the legal environment to be more adaptive to global market needs. Legal provisions have on the whole had shortfalls as they have been developed for local or regional application.
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Article I section 7 deals with Revenue bills and the manner of passing bills.  Article V spells out the ways in which the Constitution may be amended.
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The Bill of Rights is a part of the Constitution.
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Governments have specific rights.  Most of the Bill of Rights ammendments dealt with individual rights.  To allow the specific government rights (eminent domain comes to mind right away) the 10th ammendment was passed ot allow state governments to exercise their powers
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They are called Amendments.
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The Bill 'of' Rights are the first 10 Amendments to the US Constitution.