Friday Night (sick),
September 22, 2006

As you enjoy the onset of the weekend, your dedicated teacher contemplates our BILL of Rights or the first ten amendments to the US Constitution:
Below is a super abridged version of the BILL OF RIGHTS:
Amendment I : no laws against speech, press, getting together to meet and protest, or let the government know that ya aint happy...
Amendment II: Ya get to have a gun, especially if you're in the "Militia"
Amendment III: Ya don't have to let soldiers stay at your place...(they're sometimes messy and uncouth)
Amendment IV: Cops got to follow proper rules when they arrest you
Amendment V: No double jeopardy allowed & ya don't have to incrimminate yourself when testifying at somebody else's trial.
Amendment VI: Ya get a speedy trial, no locking a guy up and throwing away the key.
Amendment VII: If you are in big trouble you get a jury to hear your trial.
Amendment VIII: No unusual or weird or cruel punishments, no matter how twisted ya are...
Amendment IX: No retro stuff and if we screwed up and left something off the list or if later on it becomes apparent that its a right, the government can't take it away...
Amendment X: The federal government's power are listed in the Constitution, so if it aint listed the feds don't have power over it.

Above...its a simplistic paraphase of the real wording, but not bad, if I do say so myself...