Important Amendments

Looking at the documents that played an important role in the founding of the United States of America notice the amendments that make the country what it is today and wonder which ones are the most important. Taking a glance at the Bill of Rights, the first ten amendments of the United States Constitution, pick out three which seem to be the most pertinent in today's society. The three amendments that are the most imperative are the first, fifth and tenth amendments.

The First Amendment is the right to free speech and the freedom to gather. This has played a significant in my country's history. Without the right to gather many meetings that have made vital decisions might not have happened. If Martin Luther King Jr. was not allowed to rally the March on Washington would not have happened and blacks would still be segregated and socially ostracized to this day.

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If General Robert E. Lee had not met with Ulysses S. Grant and surrendered his army the Civil war in America would have lasted much longer and the country would have suffered many more losses. If Bill Gate had not met with IBM representatives to sell his MS-DOS processor Microsoft would most likely not be a major business and the technology that they had made would not be available to the world. What these meetings are proving is that if Americans didn't have the right to gather many documents, inventions, ideas and many other things might have not been even thought of.

The Fifth Amendment is the protection from government abuse in a legal procedure. When cops in America say "You have the right to remain silent, anything that you say can and will be used against you in court" they are referring to the Fifth Amendment. If you...