Your favorite amendment from the Bill of Rights

#1

for me it's between 1 and 4

4 is defs most underrated

4 is the most important one imo.

8 is an underrated one.

if by "underrated" we both mean "stripped of all meaning and constantly violated"...
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The first is the broadest and most surprising, considering how badly state powers wish to squash free speech.

The second and third address some touchy military issues.

The 4th through 8th comprise a sort of package deal of defendant's rights when faced with the powers of state prosecution, so it is hard to call out just one of them as more fundamental than the rest. The fourth and the fifth do seem especially key to me, though.

The ninth is a pretty sweet bit of legal bookkeeping that should protect the full spectrum of human rights, but it gets almost no play in constitutional arguments, afaik, so it never really did the work it was written to do.

The tenth is just infamous for being misused to bolster Jim Crow and a host of ills. It didn't have to be that way, but it was.

I like them all in varying degrees, but I voted for the first. It's just amazingly vital to how the whole show operates.

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#3

9th led to roe v wade decision so it gets props for me

also my buddy the social studies teacher tries to help the kids remember each amendment w/a picture and she shows them yves tanguy and jackson pollock for the ninth because "it's abstract"

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the 5th and 6th are just so crucial to the way the justice system is supposed to work, and any attempt to circumvent them invariably results in bad shit happening to the most vulnerable people. trial rights or die.

1st and 4th obv very important to me too

5 = 6 > 4 = 1 > 8 > 9 > 7 >>>> 10 >>>>>> 2

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