Write a brief paragraph summarizing the civil rights guaranteed by each amendment, a list of 3-5 situations in which a police officer would need knowledge of each amendment to do his or her job properly, and a short paragraph describing why this amendment is important to police work. on The Bill of Rights: Daily Concerns for Police Officers.

Overview

The Bill of Rights is the name given to the first 10 amendments to the US Constitution.

The Bill of Rights consists of guarantees of civil liberties and checks on state power; it was added in order to convince states to ratify the Constitution.

The Constitutional Convention

By the time the Constitutional Convention met in Philadelphia in 1787, it had become clear to many American leaders that a more powerful federal government was necessary in order to effectively deal with the challenges facing the young nation.

Under the Articles of Confederation, the central government had neither the power to raise taxes nor the authority to regulate interstate commerce. Additionally, there was no established mechanism through which states could adjudicate conflicts. Many of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention understood that the Articles of Confederation would need to be supplanted entirely, not merely revised.

To this end, the delegates spent months debating and shaping the scope and contours of a new and more powerful federal government.^1

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