The set of the first 10 amendments to the Constitution of the United States.
Explanation:
Bill of Rights is the name given to the set of the first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution, approved as a consequence of political pressure exerted by the anti-federalists, who wanted to guarantee that the individual rights of citizens were not curtailed by eventual tyrannical governments, and ratified in 1791.
Thus, these amendments began to protect the individual as a subject of rights, based on the principles of the Enlightenment and understanding man as the bearer of the fundamental rights to life and liberty. Thus, they guaranteed these rights to American citizens (not to African Americans, who were not considered citizens).
