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The "Bill of Rights"are amendments to the Constitution. The Bill of Rights was primarily established because the legal protection the Constitution provided to Americans was incomplete. The Bill of Rights ensures protection of the natural rights of liberty and property including freedom of speech, free press, free assembly and free association. It is also stated in the Bill of Rights that an individual is guaranteed a speedy, public trial with an impartial jury. In addition, the Bill of Rights reserves for the people any rights not specifically mentioned within the Constitution and also reserves all powers not granted to the federal government to the people or the States.

I would had, the Bill of Rights only applied to the Federal Government. For example, though the Federal Government was not allowed to establish a religion, many states including Massachusetts continued to have State religions.
The Bill of Rights contains the individual rights guaranteed to all Americans: they include freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press (what we today call the media), and freedom to petition the government for a redress of grievances (in other words, to protest or let the government know if you don't like what is being done). The Founding Fathers did not want America to ever go back to being a monarchy where a king decided what the citizens could and could not do. The Bill of Rights put into the Constitution the specific rights that all Americans were entitled to have.

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The ten amendments protected individual freedom.

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