If you could only keep two out of the first ten amendments to the Constitution, which two would you retain? Which two categories of civil liberties are most endangered?

Bill of Rights

If you could only keep two out of the first ten amendments to the Constitution, which two would you retain?

Consider:

Which two categories of civil liberties are most endangered?
Which freedoms seem most secure?
Which civil liberties are most fundamental to preserving a free society?
What other reasons do have for selecting the two that you chose?

Background Materials

1. OpenStax, Chapter 4
https://openstax.org/books/american-government-3e/pages/4-introduction

2. Legal Information Institute. “Bill of Rights”
https://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/billofrights

If you could only keep two out of the first ten amendments to the Constitution, which two would you retain? Which two categories of civil liberties are most endangered?
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