Posted: April 11th, 2017

What rights did the Constitution, as originally written (i.e., before the addition of the Bill of Rights), protect?

What rights did the Constitution, as originally written (i.e., before the addition of the Bill of Rights), protect? What rights did the Bill of Rights add? How did the Fourteenth Amendment and the process of incorporation change the nature of the Bill of Rights? What new rights would be added from the 1950s through the 1970s?