Essay Example on The Constitution of the United States an intellectual Creation

We the 

People of the United States in order to form a more perfect Union establish justice guarantee national tranquility attend to common defense promote general welfare and ensure the benefits of freedom for ourselves and for our Posterity we hereby promulgate and establish this Constitution for the United States of America The first amendment was adopted on December 15 1791 as the first of the ten amendments ratified to the Constitution of the United States of America These ten amendments make up what is now known as the Bill of Rights proposed by the Father of the Constitution James Madison The Bill of Rights was originally proposed as a measure to calm the anti federalist opposition for the ratification of the Constitution Initially the First Amendment only applied to federal laws promulgated by the United States Congress and many of its provisions were interpreted much more restrictive than today Beginning with the Gitlow case against New York in 1925 the Supreme Court began to apply the First Amendment to state laws a process known as incorporation through the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States