Bill of Rights for Kids Learn about these 10 amendments of the Constitution

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Have you ever heard of the Bill of Rights? Did you know it's a document that lists ten specific amendments to the Constitution of the United States? The Bill of Rights for Kids video explains the rights that each of these ten amendments grants citizens of the United States. You and your kids will also learn where the ideas for such rights came from.

Four documents in particular contributed to the formation of the Bill of Rights: the Magna Carta, the Articles of Confederation, the Virginia Declaration of Rights, and the English Bill of Rights. It's important to note, though, that our Bill of Rights was not originally part of the Constitution. The Constitution of the United States, which focused on how the country should be governed, was written in 1787. It wasn't until several years later that the Bill of Rights was added to specify rights of the country's citizens.

The First Amendment is one of the most famous, or at least, most people know what rights they have because of the First Amendment: freedom of speech, religion, assembly and press. Other amendments are less familiar, such as the Seventh Amendment that deals with civil cases in which a person has a right to have a jury make the final decision in their lawsuit. And the Ninth Amendment is like a blanket that covers other rights. Basically, it states that there are other rights people have that might not be listed in the Constitution.