Amendments

The five rights protected under the First Amendment are freedom of speech, religion, press, assembly, and petition. However, there are more rights covered under the 10 Amendments. These rights include the right to bear arms, troops may not be placed in homes during a time of peace, no unreasonable search or seizures, not sentenced for a crime without a hearing/can not be tried twice for the same crime if previously proven innocent, the right to a public trial with a lawyer supplied by the government and witnesses called upon to testify, a jury will be used in trials when the money at stake is over $20, no excessively high bail or cruel and unusual punishments, unlisted rights are not to be denied, power not directly given to the United States or denied to the states rest in the hand of the state or with the people.