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ReligionRELIGION
SpeechSPEECH
PressPRESS
AssemblyASSEMBLY
PetitionPETITION
SoldierSOLDIER
WarrantWARRANT
Due ProcessDUE PROCESS
AccusedACCUSED
TrialTRIAL
JuryJURY
BailBAIL
RightsRIGHTS
PeoplePEOPLE
AmendmentAMENDMENT

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QKNSNPAEJEHHBVQ

ORIGHTSHEEECEUT

IVRTHOYRRHAWOGR

PETITIONRTMPYSI

DOEDESOLDIERLDS

LAQUYGMUNONEVHM

ATRELIGIONDSJGC

CFOPFGCWOAMSLEJ

CPURLBIASSEMBLY

UPEOPLERRGNOJND

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ESPEECHASRNDRIE

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SQCSAMFTBAILELO

DLGDIFMNFLSORNH

RELIGION, SPEECH, PRESS, ASSEMBLY, PETITION, SOLDIER, WARRANT, DUE PROCESS, ACCUSED, TRIAL, JURY, BAIL, RIGHTS, PEOPLE, AMENDMENT

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First Amendment 18

Abridging Cutting short or limiting: what no law of Congress may do to free speech.
Assembly A gathering of people. The First Amendment protects the right to hold a peaceable one.
Congress The lawmaking body of the United States, and the opening word of the First Amendment.
Establishment A setting up. Congress may make no law respecting one of religion.
Free Exercise The practice of a faith without interference, which Congress may not prohibit.
Freedom The state of being free. The First Amendment uses the word once, for speech and the press.
Government The body the people may petition for a redress of grievances.
Grievances Complaints about wrongs: the First Amendment's last word.
Newspaper A printed daily or weekly report of events, part of what the First Amendment calls the press.
Peaceably Without violence: how the First Amendment says the people may assemble.
Petition A formal request. The people may make one to the government for a redress of grievances.
Press Newspapers and others who publish. The First Amendment names their freedom right after that of speech.
Prohibiting Forbidding. Congress may make no law doing this to the free exercise of religion.
Redress A setting right. The people may petition for one of their grievances.
Religion Faith and worship. Congress may not set up an official one or stop people from practicing theirs.
Respecting Having to do with. Congress may make no law of this kind about an establishment of religion.
Speech Saying what you think. Congress may make no law abridging the freedom of it.
Worship To pray or take part in a religious service, one way of exercising a faith.

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Arms, Homes and Searches 26

Affirmation A solemn declaration made in place of an oath. Either one may support a warrant.
Bear Arms To carry weapons. The Second Amendment names the people's right to keep and do this.
Consent Permission. In time of peace no soldier may be quartered in a house without the owner's.
Describing Telling exactly. A warrant must do this for the place to be searched.
Effects Belongings: last of the four things the Fourth Amendment keeps secure.
Houses Homes: second of the four things the Fourth Amendment keeps secure.
Infringed Limited or broken in upon. The Second Amendment says the right it names shall not be.
Militia A force of citizens who serve as soldiers. The Second Amendment calls a well regulated one necessary.
Necessary Needed. What the Second Amendment calls a well regulated Militia.
Oath A solemn promise to tell the truth: one of two things that may support a warrant.
Owner The person a house belongs to, whose consent the Third Amendment requires.
Papers Letters and written records: third of the four things the Fourth Amendment keeps secure.
Peace The opposite of war. In time of it, quartering a soldier needs the owner's consent.
Persons People themselves: first of the four things the Fourth Amendment keeps secure.
Prescribed Laid down as a rule. In time of war, quartering must follow a manner set this way by law.
Probable Cause Good reason to believe. No warrant may be issued without it.
Quartered Given lodging: the Third Amendment's word for troops housed in a private home.
Regulated Kept in order by rules: the Second Amendment's word for the Militia.
Searches Hunts through a person's home or belongings. The Fourth Amendment bars unreasonable ones.
Secure Safe. The Fourth Amendment gives the people the right to be this in their persons and houses.
Security Safety. The Second Amendment speaks of that of a free State.
Seizures Takings of people or things by officials. The Fourth Amendment bars unreasonable ones.
Soldier A member of an army. The Third Amendment keeps one out of a private house in peacetime unless the owner agrees.
Unreasonable Without good cause: the kind of searches and seizures the Fourth Amendment forbids.
Violated Broken. The Fourth Amendment says the people's right to be secure shall not be.
Warrant A written order from a judge or magistrate that allows a search or an arrest.

Fifth Amendment 22

Capital The Fifth Amendment's word for the gravest kind of crime.
Compelled Forced. In a criminal case no person may be, to be a witness against himself.
Compensation Payment for a loss. It must be just when private property is taken for public use.
Criminal Having to do with crime: the kind of case in which no one must be a witness against himself.
Deprived Having something taken away. No person may be, of life, liberty or property, without due process.
Due Process The course of law that must be followed before a person loses life, liberty or property.
Eminent Domain The government's power to take private property for public use, which the Fifth Amendment's last clause limits.
Grand Jury A body of citizens that decides whether a person should be charged with a serious crime.
Indictment A written accusation of a serious crime, which the Fifth Amendment requires a grand jury to make.
Infamous Disgraceful. The Fifth Amendment speaks of a capital, or otherwise this kind of, crime.
Jeopardy Risk of punishment. The Fifth Amendment forbids putting a person in it a second time for one offence.
Liberty Freedom: second of the three things no person may be deprived of without due process of law.
Life First of the three things no person may be deprived of without due process of law.
Limb An arm or a leg. The Fifth Amendment speaks of jeopardy of life or this.
Naval Of the navy. Cases arising in the land or these forces are an exception to the grand jury rule.
Offence A crime, spelled here as the text of 1789 spells it.
Presentment A word the Fifth Amendment sets beside indictment: either must come from a Grand Jury.
Private Belonging to a person, not to the public. Such property may not be taken without payment.
Property What a person owns: third of the three things that due process of law protects.
Public Use What private property may be taken for, but only with just compensation.
Twice Two times: how often no person may be put in jeopardy for the same offence.
Witness Someone who gives evidence. No person may be forced to be one against himself.

Trials, Juries and Bail 26

Accusation The charge against a person, who has a right to know its nature and cause.
Accused The person charged with a crime, whose rights fill the Sixth Amendment.
Assistance Help. The Sixth Amendment's last clause promises that of Counsel.
Bail A pledge, often of money, that lets an accused person go free until trial. It may not be excessive.
Common Law The body of law that came down from England's courts. The Seventh Amendment names it twice.
Compulsory Required by law. The accused may use this kind of process to bring in witnesses in his favor.
Confronted Brought face to face. The accused has a right to be, with the witnesses against him.
Controversy A dispute. The Seventh Amendment speaks of the value in it.
Counsel A lawyer. The Sixth Amendment promises the accused the assistance of one.
Cruel Causing needless pain: the Eighth Amendment's first word for the punishments it bans.
Defence The accused person's side of a case, spelled here as the text of 1789 spells it.
District The area where the crime was committed. The Sixth Amendment draws the jury from it.
Dollars The money in which the Seventh Amendment counts the value in controversy.
Excessive More than is reasonable: the Eighth Amendment's limit on bail and on fines.
Fines Money a court orders someone to pay. The Eighth Amendment says they may not be excessive.
Impartial Taking no side: what the Sixth Amendment says a jury must be.
Inflicted Made to be suffered: the word on which the Eighth Amendment ends.
Informed Told. The accused must be, of the nature and cause of the accusation.
Jury Citizens who hear a case and decide it. The Sixth and Seventh Amendments both name one.
Prosecutions Cases the government brings against people accused of crimes: the Sixth Amendment's subject.
Punishments Penalties for crimes. Cruel and unusual ones may not be inflicted.
Speedy Quick. With public, one of two things the Sixth Amendment says a criminal trial must be.
Suits Cases one party brings against another. The Seventh Amendment covers those at common law.
Trial The hearing of a case in court.
Twenty The number of dollars a suit must exceed before the Seventh Amendment's jury right applies.
Unusual Not common: the Eighth Amendment's second word for the punishments it bans.

People and States 16

Certain Some particular: the Ninth Amendment's word for the rights the Constitution lists.
Constitution The plan of government to which the ten amendments were added.
Construed Interpreted. The listing of some rights shall not be, to deny others.
Delegated Handed over. The Tenth Amendment speaks of powers not given in this way to the United States.
Deny To refuse. With disparage, what the list of rights must not be read to do to other rights.
Disparage To belittle. The Ninth Amendment guards unlisted rights against this.
Enumeration A listing one by one. The Ninth Amendment opens with that of certain rights.
Federalism A system in which a national government and the states each hold powers, as the Tenth Amendment expresses.
People The last word of the Tenth Amendment, and so of the Bill of Rights.
Powers The first noun of the Tenth Amendment: those not delegated are reserved.
Prohibited Forbidden. The Tenth Amendment speaks of powers the Constitution has not put off limits to the States.
Reserved Kept back. Powers not delegated to the United States are, to the States or to the people.
Respectively Each for itself: how the Tenth Amendment says the States hold their reserved powers.
Retained Kept. The Ninth Amendment speaks of rights that are, by the people.
Rights Freedoms and protections owed to people. The Ninth Amendment says the list of them is not complete.
States With the people, the holders of every power the Tenth Amendment calls reserved.

Proposed and Ratified 26

Abuse Wrong use. The amendments were asked for to prevent this of the Constitution's powers.
Amendment An article added to the Constitution. The first ten were all ratified on one day in 1791.
Archives The national institution in Washington, D.C., that keeps the enrolled original on display.
Articles What the 1789 resolution calls its 12 proposals. The third became the First Amendment.
Clauses Parts of a legal document. The 1789 preamble says several states wished more of them added.
Confidence Trust. The 1789 preamble hoped to extend the public's in the Government.
Conventions State meetings that adopted the Constitution. A number of them asked for added clauses.
December The month of 1791 in which the Bill of Rights was ratified. Its 15th is Bill of Rights Day.
Declaratory Making plain. The 1789 preamble asks for clauses of this kind and for restrictive ones.
Enrolled Written out in final official form, as the original Joint Resolution on display was.
Incorporation The doctrine by which portions of the Bill of Rights were made to apply to the states.
Legislatures State lawmaking bodies. The 1789 resolution sent its 12 articles to them to be ratified.
Magna Carta The English charter of 1215, one of the earlier documents whose ideas the amendments build on.
New York The city where the First Congress was meeting when it passed the amendments.
Proposed Put forward. Congress did this with 12 amendments on September 25, 1789.
Ratified Approved. Ten of the 12 amendments were, on December 15, 1791.
Resolution A formal decision of a lawmaking body. A joint one of 1789 carried the amendments to the states.
Restrictive Setting limits. The 1789 preamble asks for clauses of this kind and for declaratory ones.
Rotunda The round room in Washington, D.C., where visitors can see the 1789 resolution.
Senate With the House of Representatives, one of the two bodies that passed the 1789 resolution.
September The month of 1789 in which Congress passed the amendments.
Speaker The officer of the House of Representatives whose name comes first under the 1789 resolution.
Ten The number of amendments that were ratified on December 15, 1791.
Twelve How many amendments the First Congress sent to the states.
Two Thirds The share of both Houses of Congress that agreed to send the amendments to the states.
Wednesday The day of the week, March 4, 1789, on which the First Congress began.

How this list was compiled: Own work: the 134 words and every meaning were written for this page. The wording of each amendment, the 1789 resolution and the dates it was proposed and ratified were checked on October 16, 2026 against the National Archives transcription (https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/bill-of-rights-transcript); legal terms and the later history against English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Bill_of_Rights and its articles on each of the ten amendments. Licence: own work

How it works

This Bill of Rights word search hides 15 words: Amendment, Rights, Religion, Speech, Press, Assembly, Petition, Soldier, Warrant, Due Process, Accused, Jury, Trial, Bail and People. Six more lists take the ten amendments a few at a time.

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A Bill of Rights word find in six lists

Start from a list splits the 134 words by amendment: First Amendment (18); Arms, Homes and Searches (26) for the Second to Fourth; Fifth Amendment (22); Trials, Juries and Bail (26) for the Sixth to Eighth; People and States (16) for the Ninth and Tenth; Proposed and Ratified (26) for how the ten became law.

Every word comes with its amendment

"A setting right. The people may petition for one of their grievances." is Redress. "The number of dollars a suit must exceed before the Seventh Amendment's jury right applies." is Twenty. Under More options, tick Show clues, not words, and the sheet becomes a review of the text.

Easy Bill of Rights keeps to 17 words of 3 to 5 letters, such as Press, Oath, Jury and Bail.
Offence and Defence are spelled as the text of 1789 spells them.
For Bill of Rights Day on December 15, start from the list Proposed and Ratified.

Questions and answers

What is the Bill of Rights?

The first ten amendments to the United States Constitution. Congress proposed 12 amendments on September 25, 1789, and ten of them were ratified on December 15, 1791, the National Archives transcription says.

What are the first 10 amendments about?

First: religion, speech, press, assembly and petition. Second: the militia and arms. Third: quartering soldiers. Fourth: searches and warrants. Fifth: grand juries and due process. Sixth: criminal trials. Seventh: civil juries. Eighth: bail and punishments. Ninth: other rights. Tenth: reserved powers.

Why was the Bill of Rights added to the Constitution?

A number of state conventions asked for it as they adopted the Constitution. The 1789 resolution says they wanted further declaratory and restrictive clauses, to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers and to extend public confidence in the government.

Where is the original Bill of Rights kept?

In the Rotunda of the National Archives Building in Washington, D.C. On display is the enrolled original of the joint resolution of 1789. For the document the amendments were added to, print the Constitution word search.

All 134 words

First Amendment 18

Arms, Homes and Searches 26

Fifth Amendment 22

Trials, Juries and Bail 26

People and States 16

Proposed and Ratified 26

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