The Bill of Rights

Text of the Bill of Rights

The Bill of Rights

The Constitution

The Declaration of Independence

Established in September 1999, the Bill of Rights Institute is a 501c3 non-profit educational organization that works to engage, educate, and empower individuals with a passion for the freedom and opportunity that exist in a free society. The Institute develops educational resources and programs for a network of more than 50,000 educators and 30,000 students nationwide.
 
 
 
The mission of The Constitutional Sources Project is to increase understanding, facilitate research, and encourage discussion of the U.S. Constitution by connecting individuals with the documentary history of its creation, ratification, and amendment.
 
 

 The Bill of Rights : A User’s Guide
 The best all around primer for clarity and an
 unfiltered look at how vital a force the Bill of Rights
 has been throughout America’s history, and the
 issues that are defining its future relevance
 to the American way of life.
 
 

 Origins of the Bill of Rights
“Pulling together a lifetime of scholarship on liberty,
 Levy offers a vivid account of the various rights and
 freedoms that Americans care most deeply about.”
 –Akhil Reed Amar, Yale Law School.
 
 
 

The Bill of Rights : Creation and Reconstruction
“By viewing the Bill of Rights as a document with an
 evolving meaning shaped by history, and by stressing
 how the Civil War and Reconstruction transformed the
 Bill of Rights, Amar has made a major contribution.”
 –Eric Foner, Columbia University.
 
 

 
The War on the Bill of Rights
A passionate examination of the dangers confronting
 individual freedom in post 9-11 America, and how they
 threaten the survival of these most basic American rights.