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Celebrating Freedom: The 225th Anniversary of the U.S. Bill of Rights

Celebrating Freedom: The 225th Anniversary of the U.S. Bill of Rights is a Special Report prepared by The Washington Times Advocacy Department.

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Military veterans visit the Rotunda of the National Archives in 2015, where they can view the original Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, and Bill of Rights. Image courtesy of National Archives and Records Administration.

National Archives' celebration of the Bill of Rights' 225th anniversary

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Madison and the 'counterbalancing of human interests'

By Jonathan R. Alger

There is freedom in compromise

By C. Douglas Smith

Saving the Bill of Rights through education

By Lewis F. Larsen

Madison's humility: The Bill of Rights unifies U.S.

By Dr. David J. Bobb

Why the First Amendment is 'first in importance'

By Dr. Owen Anderson

Jefferson and the First Amendment's religion clauses

By Dr. Barbara A. Perry

George Mason: The Virginia statesman who insisted on a bill of rights

By Scott Stroh

Patrick Henry and the Bill of Rights

By Mark Couvillon
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Free Exercise Clause and the 'positive good' of religion

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Founders' view of freedom of speech and the press

By Dr. David F. Forte

Second Amendment: A fundamental principle of American liberty

By Dr. Joyce Lee Malcolm

The Third Amendment: A neglected measure for a skeptical age

By Adam J. MacLeod

Sixth Amendment: How one man's courage saved 'trial by jury'

By Dr. Stephen H. Balch

James Madison and the 'acrobatic history' of the Ninth Amendment

By Dr. Lynn Uzzell

The enduring teaching of the 27th Amendment

By Dr. Alan Gibson

Our 'two' Bills of Rights

By Dr. Robert Lowry Clinton

The 10th Amendment and revival of federalism

By Tim Donner

Conserving the uniquely exportable Bill of Rights

By Dr. Dwight Newman

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