Civil Civics America 250: Drafting a New America

Bill of Rights, Part 2

The Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments to the Constitution, added quickly after the original Constitution was ratified. It only took two years for everyone to realize that some important things had been left out, like individual rights.

There has been a debate about what these rights mean ever since. 

What exactly is a "speedy" trial? How is it enforced? Which punishments are "cruel and unusual"? Does a punishment have to be both "cruel" and "unusual", or does it have to be one or the other? Who gets to decide? What the heck is the Tenth Amendment trying to say? (We think they'd been hitting the ale a bit too hard that day.) 

What rights should have been included but weren't?