The Bill of Rights

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  1. 1. The _____ and Reconstruction led to the 14th Amendment
  2. 3. Amendment that declared that no state shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without due process of law
  3. 5. Virginia delegate who proposed adding a bill of rights towards the end of the Constitutional Convention (Website)
  4. 8. Responsible for drafting the Bill of Rights in the First Congress
  5. 10. Immediately after independence was declared, the American states began writing _____ constitutions and bills of rights
  6. 11. Number of delegates who signed the Constitution on September 17, 1787 (Website)
  7. 15. Charter for _____: charter adopted in 1606 that declared equal rights for migrants to the New World
  8. 16. The 8th Amendment banned excessive _____ and fines
  9. 18. State whose copy of the Bill of Rights was missing for nearly 140 years after being stolen by a Union soldier during the Civil War (Website)
  10. 19. City where the Bill of Rights was drafted (Website)
  11. 20. Amendment that guarantees right to counsel, to a speedy and public trial and to trial by jury
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  1. 2. The idea that the Bill of Rights applies to the states
  2. 4. Document was adopted by the British Parliament in 1628 and condemned unlawful imprisonments
  3. 6. Bill of Rights Day is observed on _____ 15 (Website)
  4. 7. Number of amendments Congress proposed to the states in September of 1789 (Website)
  5. 9. Document to protect subjects against royal abuses of power
  6. 12. The main argument against including a bill of rights in the Constitution was that it was _____
  7. 13. The Bill of Rights has never been _____
  8. 14. Richard Breeman points out that the Bill of Rights was not added during the Constitutional Convention because the delegates wanted to avoid anything that would _____ the convention (Website)
  9. 17. The Bill of Rights is the first _____ amendments to the U.S. Constitution