MOUNT VERNON — Mount Vernon Assistant City Prosecutor Robert Broeren Jr. touched on nine of the 27 amendments to the U.S. Constitution, Wednesday evening, during the Constitution Lecture Series being presented at the Mount Vernon Memorial Theater.
The series has run for the past four Wednesday evenings, and will wrap up next week.
Part Ten: Search,arrest warrants September 16, 2010
Part Nine: Right to bear arms September 16, 2010
Part Eight: Bill of Rights starts with expression September 9, 2010
Part Seven: Constitution ratified on promise of Bill of Rights September 9, 2010
Part Six: Guarding legal rights September 2, 2010
Part Five: Freedom of religion September 2, 2010
Part Four: Small parts have big meaning August 26, 2010
Part Three: Evolution of ‘We the people’ August 26, 2010
Part One: Creating a perfect union August 19, 2010
Part Two: Separation of powers August 19, 2010
Series to touch on Constitution August 13, 2010
U.S. Constitution National Archives
He explained the Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791, after our nation’s Founding Fathers — such as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison — worked as soon as the Constitution itself was ratified to ensure the Bill of Rights protecting precious American freedoms would be added to the original document as soon as possible.
“The Constitution that was ratified by the states did not contain a Bill of Rights, and many of the states had based their adoption on the agreement that a Bill of Rights amending the Constitution would soon be proposed and added to the Constitution,” Broeren said.
He explained the freedoms protected by the Third, Seventh and Eighth amendments.
The Third Amendment protects American citizens from quartering soldiers without their consent, during peacetime, and allows it only under certain circumstances in times of war.
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