The First Amendment pro­vides sev­er­al rights pro­tec­tions: to express ideas through speech and the press, to assem­ble or gath­er with a group to protest or for oth­er rea­sons, and to ask the gov­ern­ment to fix prob­lems. It also pro­tects the right to reli­gious beliefs and prac­tices. It pre­vents the gov­ern­ment from cre­at­ing or favor­ing a religion.

Republicans hate every­thing in the Bill of Rights except for the 2^nd Amendment, the right to bear Arms.
They hate that ordi­nary American cit­i­zens are free to express their ideas through free speech and the rights guar­an­teed the Press. Except if the press report­ing is def­er­en­tial and slant­ed, like FUAX news and the wide net­work of right-wing dis­in­for­ma­tion organs through­out the country.
They oppose the teach­ing of American his­to­ry. Desantis is remov­ing the teach­ing of African-American his­to­ry in Florida’s high schools and col­leges. They are burn­ing books that they dis­agree with and much more.

The Second Amendment pro­tects the right to keep and bear arms.

This they agree with. They believe in unbri­dled access to guns of all types, includ­ing assault-style weapons that have been used in the almost dai­ly mas­sacres of American citizens.

• US has 120.5 firearms per 100 res­i­dents, report finds
• The only coun­try with more civil­ian-owned firearms than people(Bloomberg)
  There are a report­ed 400-plus mil­lion guns in the hands of Americans. However, those weapons are con­cen­trat­ed in the hands of only about 32% of the peo­ple, large­ly white Republicans.

The Third Amendment pre­vents the gov­ern­ment from forc­ing home­own­ers to allow sol­diers to use their homes. Before the Revolutionary War, laws gave British sol­diers the right to take over pri­vate homes.

Republicans are for the rich and pow­er­ful, so it is not a stretch to under­stand their sup­port for laws like immi­nent domain that allows the Government to appro­pri­ate the prop­er­ty of cit­i­zens under the guise that it is for the com­mon good. They have sup­port­ed even large cor­po­ra­tions forcibly acquir­ing the prop­er­ty of cit­i­zens using immi­nent domain as justification.

The Fourth Amendment bars the gov­ern­ment from unrea­son­able search and seizure of an indi­vid­ual or their pri­vate property.

Republicans are for the police state as long as it does not apply to them. They are com­fort­able with Police abus­ing the rights of poor Black Americans by forcibly enter­ing their homes and motor­cars with­out legal jus­ti­fi­ca­tion. They have no prob­lem with gov­ern­men­tal pow­er as long as it does not affect them.

The Fifth Amendment pro­vides sev­er­al pro­tec­tions for peo­ple accused of crimes. It states that seri­ous crim­i­nal charges must be start­ed by a grand jury. A per­son can­not be tried twice for the same offense (dou­ble jeop­ardy) or have prop­er­ty tak­en away with­out just com­pen­sa­tion. People have the right against self-incrim­i­na­tion and can­not be impris­oned with­out due process of law (fair pro­ce­dures and trials.

The Fifth Amendment is one of the rights most Americans have come to depend on against Government over­reach and abuse. Notwithstanding, Republicans like Donald Trump do not believe these rights should extend to peo­ple of color.
He want­ed the Central Park five exe­cut­ed, even though it turned out they were all inno­cent of the charges against them.
Republicans like Sarah Huckabee Sanders have just signed into law sweep­ing changes to parole laws in the state of Arkansas. 

The Sixth Amendment pro­vides addi­tion­al pro­tec­tions to peo­ple accused of crimes, such as the right to a speedy and pub­lic tri­al, tri­al by an impar­tial jury in crim­i­nal cas­es, and to be informed of crim­i­nal charges. Witnesses must face the accused, and the accused is allowed his or her own wit­ness­es and to be rep­re­sent­ed by a lawyer.

Their Fascist mes­si­ah Donald Trump fac­ing a 34-count felony indict­ment filed by the New York City District Attorney’s office is ask­ing a court for a cool­ing off peri­od as anoth­er case, this time a civ­il rape case, is get­ting ready for trial.
His accuser is enti­tled to a speedy res­o­lu­tion in this mat­ter as the alleged aggriev­ed and injured par­ty. In this case, Trump is ask­ing to slow things down, arguably he believes, as he has always telegraphed, that he can drag court cas­es out to frus­trate his oppo­nents. His cal­cu­lus is his hope that he will once again become pres­i­dent, where­upon the lat­ter case will nev­er see the light of day.

The Seventh Amendment extends the right to a jury tri­al in Federal civ­il cases.
This amend­ment is par­tic­u­lar­ly impor­tant for poor defen­dants, par­tic­u­lar­ly peo­ple who are in the minority.
Imagine get­ting a fed­er­al judge appoint­ed by Donald Trump in a bench tri­al. This is an impor­tant amendment.

The Eighth Amendment bars exces­sive bail and fines and cru­el and unusu­al punishment.

This amend­ment gives some cov­er to minori­ties accused of crimes. In most cas­es, they are unable to afford the exor­bi­tant bail that uneth­i­cal racist judges would impose. Republicans have long railed against the amendment.

The Ninth Amendment states that list­ing spe­cif­ic rights in the Constitution does not mean that peo­ple do not have oth­er rights that have not been spelled out.

This is one of the rights in the Bill of Rights that Police depart­ments and their offi­cers, and their Republican sup­port­ers need to be remind­ed of on a reg­u­lar basis.

The Tenth Amendment says that the Federal Government only has those pow­ers del­e­gat­ed in the Constitution. If it isn’t list­ed, it belongs to the states or to the people.

This may be one amend­ment they are not too opposed to. They have con­sis­tent­ly railed against the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment begin­ning with Nixon, more so with Ronald Reagan and oth­er states’ rights pro­po­nents like Newt Gingrich and the entire mod­ern Republican party.
Understand, of course, that when they advo­cate for more rights for the states and less fed­er­al inter­ven­tion, they are advo­cat­ing for the right to bru­tal­ize and do as they please to Black cit­i­zens as they have done for hun­dreds of years.

The Bill of Rights: How Did it Happen?

Writing the Bill of Rights

The amend­ments James Madison pro­posed were designed to win sup­port in both hous­es of Congress and the states. He focused on rights-relat­ed amend­ments, ignor­ing sug­ges­tions that would have struc­tural­ly changed the government. 

Opposition to the Constitution

Many Americans, per­suad­ed by a pam­phlet writ­ten by George Mason, opposed the new gov­ern­ment. Mason was one of three del­e­gates present on the final day of the con­ven­tion who refused to sign the Constitution because it lacked a bill of rights.

James Madison and oth­er sup­port­ers of the Constitution argued that a bill of rights was­n’t nec­es­sary because — “the gov­ern­ment can only exert the pow­ers spec­i­fied by the Constitution.” But they agreed to con­sid­er adding amend­ments when rat­i­fi­ca­tion was in dan­ger in the key state of Massachusetts.

Introducing the Bill of Rights in the First Congress

Few mem­bers of the First Congress want­ed to make amend­ing the new Constitution a pri­or­i­ty. But James Madison, once the most vocal oppo­nent of the Bill of Rights, intro­duced a list of amend­ments to the Constitution on June 8, 1789, and “hound­ed his col­leagues relent­less­ly” to secure its pas­sage. Madison had come to appre­ci­ate the impor­tance vot­ers attached to these pro­tec­tions, the role that enshrin­ing them in the Constitution could have in edu­cat­ing peo­ple about their rights, and the chance that adding them might pre­vent its oppo­nents from mak­ing more dras­tic changes to it.

Ratifying the Bill of Rights

The House passed a joint res­o­lu­tion con­tain­ing 17 amend­ments based on Madison’s pro­pos­al. The Senate changed the joint res­o­lu­tion to con­sist of 12 amend­ments. A joint House and Senate Conference Committee set­tled the remain­ing dis­agree­ments in September. On October 2, 1789, President Washington sent copies of the 12 amend­ments adopt­ed by Congress to the states. By December 15, 1791, three-fourths of the states had rat­i­fied 10 of these, now known as the “Bill of Rights.”