Welcome to MyBillofRights.org

Over two centuries since its ratification in 1791, the Bill of Rights remains the single most powerful legal assertion of individual rights and liberties ever written. Its balance of political principles and personal liberty has proven both dynamic and durable, becoming the worldwide roadmap for basic human rights. Indeed, the very phrase “bill of rights” is now synonymous with the demand for freedom from oppression.

Yet today, the origin and significance of the Bill of Rights is barely even taught in our schools; and its 10 Amendments are even more rarely publicly displayed. Not until 2008 was there a single permanent display of the Bill of Rights anywhere in America, and there is still not a single major public celebration of this remarkable document.*

This is not just a matter of neglecting our history. The concepts developed in the Bill of Rights have much light to shed on our current dilemma. The free exchange of ideas is not only essential to civic discourse; it also produces the innovations that drive prosperity. Checks and balances, designed to limit concentrations of power and their abuse, also promote transparency and accountability; the lifeblood of free markets. The right to bear arms and the presumption of innocence both put the government on notice as to who is the master and who the servant in our Republic, as timely a message today as ever.

At MyBillofRights.org, our mission is to place displays of the Bill of Rights across America. Our State Capitols and Town Squares initiatives seek to elevate the Bill of Rights to the position of prominence it deserves, as a clarion call to secure and preserve this American birthright of liberty for generations to come.