The Bill of Rights: Every Amendment, Why it's important, and How it limits the government

Hi Civics Review! Thank you so much for the shout out----Very cool! I will definitely be sharing this video with my students. Done well---You make learning the Benchmarks for Civics fun and interesting and educational all at the same time. You ROCK!!!

One thing that I noticed. At least in one section you refer to the bill of rights as giving the people the right. Instead we should think of it as protecting an existing right. The government does not give rights, or only takes them away. That was the very reason for the bill of rights.

It’s been decades since the Bill of Rights and the Constitution has been taught in schools for no other reason than an uninformed citizen is easy to control. A well educated free thinking citizen is a threat to society. Knowledge is Power.

As clear and straightforward as these are, it's sad how often today the government is getting away with violating them.

There are a lot of police officers that need to watch this, and understand it.

Juries DO NOT determine innocent. Under the law you are presumed innocent. The prosecution must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that a defendant is guilty. The jury simply votes if the prosecution has met the burden of proof by voting guilty, or not guilty. They do not determine innocence.

It does not limit the government when the government chooses to not abide by the constitution. The 4th Amendment is now so eroded it barely exists.

The 2nd ammendment isnt about guns. Its purpose is to mention that the government can not tell you what weapons you can posess or use in any way at all. That is why it uses the word arms rather than specifically saying rifle or musket.

THANK YOU for actually explaining the real meaning behind the 2A (the most important). And by the way, these rights ARE UNLIMITED. “Shall not be infringed” literally means “cannot be limited”

It's clear we've lost the Fourth Amendment; Law enforcement routinely search homes without warrants, and have no consequences for doing so.

2A does not refer to guns. It refers to weapons and tools of war. Guns, knives, clubs, tanks, swords, etc. Not just guns.

Miranda Rights are not part of the Fifth amendment but are also called the Miranda warning and they stem from a 1966 Supreme Court case: Miranda v. Arizona. In the original case, the defendant, Ernesto Miranda, was a 24-year-old high school drop-out with a police record when he was accused in 1963 of kidnapping, raping and robbing an 18-year-old woman. During a two-hour interrogation, Miranda confessed to the crimes. Lawyers would contend that Miranda had not been clearly informed of his rights to have a lawyer and against self-incrimination. Their appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court forever changed U.S. criminal procedure.

You mentioned a “fair & speedy trial”. All I could think about was the J6 political prisoners… And when it says a “right to a fair & impartial jury”. They should find a way to make sure cases involving politics have equally different voting parties. So in NY, DC & Cali all republicans wouldn’t be guaranteed to be guilty regardless of the Lack of evidence.

This was excellent! My 5th graders will love it. Thank you for being funny, yet appropriate, and for putting this tough stuff on a 10 year olds level!

Good video the only thing I believe you missed was on the 10th amendment it says, or to the people which means the people have the right to disagree over whatever the state say. They hate when you know this everyone will try to tell you you’re wrong any amendment you try to invoke you will get bullied and be told a lie saying you actually don’t have that right

Needed this refresh of my Rights History is Coool!!! Thanks for the Video🙏🏽🙏🏽

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Well done! Thanks for going through the entire Bill of Rights

Your videos have helped my class so much! Keep up the good work!

One of the things you feel to touch on the fifth amendment domain is they cannot take your property for non-public use which means if they're going to build a new school in your properties there yes they can take it if they're going to build a highway yes they can take it however they cannot take your land and then sell it to McDonald's or Burger King or a gas station or a manufacturing plant or any other thing it has to be public use this cost the state of Connecticut over 150 million a few years back because the landowner sued they were going to build a highway going through his land when that highway project fell through because they had to move it 20 miles away due to some swamp lands that they would have ran into they took the turnaround and sold that land to developers who put McDonald's Burger King Wendy's and a couple of other stores and restaurants and a few gas stations there the man turn around and sued them and won.