Definitions for bill of rights
bill of rights

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1. Bill of Rightsnoun

   a statement of fundamental rights and privileges (especially the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution)

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1. bill of rightsnoun

   A formal statement of the rights of a specified group of people

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1. bill of rights

   A bill of rights is a formal declaration or document that lists and protects the fundamental rights, civil liberties, and freedoms of individuals, typically maintained and guaranteed by a country's constitution. This document acts as a safeguard against potential abuses of power by the government or other entities, displaying the inherent and inalienable rights of the citizens, which can often include freedom of speech, religion, equal protection under the law, and the right to a fair trial.

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1. Bill of rights

   A bill of rights is a list of the most important rights to the citizens of a country. The purpose of these bills is to protect those rights against infringement. The term "bill of rights" originates from England, where it refers to the Bill of Rights enacted by Parliament in 1689, following the Glorious Revolution, asserting the supremacy of Parliament over the monarch, and listing a number of fundamental rights and liberties. Bills of rights may be entrenched or unentrenched. An entrenched bill of rights cannot be modified or repealed by a country's legislature through normal procedure, instead requiring a supermajority or referendum; often it is part of a country's constitution and therefore subject to special procedures applicable to constitutional amendments. A not entrenched bill of rights is a normal statute law and as such can be modified or repealed by the legislature at will. In practice, not every jurisdiction enforces the protection of the rights articulated in its bill of rights. Australia is the only Western democratic country with neither a constitutional nor legislative bill of rights, although there is ongoing debate in many of Australia's states. Former Australian Prime Minister John Howard has argued against a bill of rights for Australia as transferring power from elected politicians to unelected judges and bureaucrats. Victoria and the Australian Capital Territory are the only states and territories to have a human rights bill.

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1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of bill of rights in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

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   The numerical value of bill of rights in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of bill of rights in a Sentence

1. Matt Coles:

   Two hundred ten years ago, the people who drafted our Bill of Rights decided that banning books wasn't the way to handle disagreements. They thought the best thing was more speech. It is a pity that county commissioners in 2002 don't agree.

2. Chip Huggins:

   We’ve had a lot of concern about the erosion [of] our founding principles…the Constitution, Bill of Rights, federation papers and separation of powers.

3. Lewis Baldwin:

   Democratic Socialist was not talking about race-based affirmative action. Democratic Socialist was concerned about need-based affirmative action, if you look at Democratic Socialist call for an economic bill of rights, Democratic Socialist was talking about affirmative action that benefited all people that were poor and deprived.

4. Edmund A. Opitz:

   No one can read our Constitution without concluding that the people who wrote it wanted their government severely limited; the words 'no' and 'not' employed in restraint of government power occur 24 times in the first seven articles of the Constitution and 22 more times in the Bill of Rights.

5. Fox News:

   Republicans have a plan that will put America in a new direction — one that will make the economy strong to tackle inflation and make it energy independent, so you can fill up your gas tank and still have money leftover, a nation that is strong, and securing your border and funding the police and ensuring your streets are safe for a future that is built on freedom. One that gives the Parents’ Bill of Rights so you can have a say in your kids’ education, and a government that is held accountable so you’ll know where COVID originated from, you’ll know why the DOJ goes after parents simply because they want to do a school board meeting.

References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
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2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Bill_of_Rights
3. ^ ChatGPT
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4. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=bill of rights