The text of the US Bill of Rights, with commentary from the bicentennial commemoration in 1989.

Citation Information: Excerpt from “The French Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen and the American Bill of Rights : a bicentennial commemoration issued pursuant to S.J. Res. 317, 100th Congress,” Digital Public Library of America, http://dp.la/item/5a7cf3c13b3b7116de87eb25464632d0.

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Courtesy of University of Minnesota via HathiTrust.

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