This day was signed into practice by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt on
December 15, 1941, one hundred and fifty years after the actual signing of
the Bill of Rights by our forefathers. Ironically, he proclaimed the holiday
just one week after the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor initiating the United
States’ involvement in World War II where freedom issues were at the core of
wartime dogma.
The Bill of Rights was important in the founding of the United States
because of the depravity experienced by many of the immigrants. While the
U.S. Constitution was written in 1787, it wasn’t until two years later that
the ten Bill of Rights were incorporated into the governing document.
The ten Bill of Rights are summarized as:
1) Freedom of Religion
2) The right to bear arms.
3) Consent to house soldiers
4) No unreasonable searches or seizures
5) No self incrimination, due process
6) Jury trial for all, public defense
7) In common law, right of jury trial
8) No excessive bail or cruel and unusual punishment
9) Constitution cannot deny rights of others
10) Governmental power default to the states