Bill of Rights
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3.3
- noun
- /bɪl əv raɪts/
- Formal
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Carta de Derechos
- Okay, so the Bill of Rights was ratified in 1791.
- the Constitution and Bill of Rights
- Library Bill of Rights
- Amendment to the Bill of Rights
I would go to the Bill of Rights.
- I would go to the Bill of Rights.
- They had left out the entire Bill of Rights.
- So I also was researching the Bill of Rights the other day.
- The deal is in this country we have these checks and balances in the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
- But one of the things I think ought to be added to the Bill of Rights is do you have access to a non inflationary store of wealth?
- Should the International Bill of Rights remain a statement of principles or also impose enforceable obligations on nations?
- And I think that our framers, by putting this in the Bill of Rights, really believed that before someone's individual rights, their privacy is violated.
- But those Bill of Rights, the moment that we sign them, there were forces within our society that began trying to chip away at them.
- But unless you believe in the Bill of Rights, I I don't know how to.
- And then he went through a couple more with me, Bill of Rights, and I learned, hey, I have an individual right from first session.
Examples
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Education about the Bill of Rights has always been an underlying goal of CRF.
Academic text (1991) -
On 15 December 1791, the 11th state ratified the Bill of Rights, and it became law.
Academic text (1991) -
But you need to bring people in who agree with the Bill of Rights, who love the country.
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Can you tell me what the Bill of Rights is?
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Ever hear of the Bill of Rights?
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It's part of the Bill of Rights.
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In advance, students could prepare questions related to the Bill of Rights for the state officials.
Academic text (1991) -
For example, the First Amendment to the Bill of Rights provides as follows:
Academic text (1991) -
Finally, as part of the supreme law of the land, the Bill of Rights was all but ignored.
Academic text (1991) -
The Bill of Rights guarantees essential freedoms such as speech and religion.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning is directly derivable from 'bill' (a written proposal/document) + 'of rights' (concerning rights): together they denote a document listing or enshrining rights. This noun+of+noun composition is semantically regular and cross-linguistically common, so a B1 learner who knows the constituent words will readily infer the MWE's basic meaning (though they may not know the specific U.S. historical reference).
Etymology
The noun Bill of Rights comes from the idea of a written paper called a bill that lists people's basic rights. One famous early example was in England long ago, and later other countries used the name for papers that protect people's freedoms, so today it means a formal list that guarantees those freedoms.