bill of rights

plural bills of rights

1. lawA formal statement of the rights of a specified group of people.

1. USlawThe first ten amendments to the US Constitution that guarantee certain personal rights and freedoms.

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   At the heart of it, I thought of the Great Society as an extension of the Bill of Rights. When our fundamental American rights were set forth by the Founding Fathers, they reflected the concerns of a people who sought freedom in their time. But in our time a broadened concept of freedom requires that every American have the right to a healthy body, a full education, a decent home, and the opportunity to develop to the best of his talents.

   1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 104

2. UKlawAn Act of Parliament enacted in 1689 that guarantees certain human rights and regulates the succession to the British Crown.
3. CommonwealthHong Konglawa legislation or part of the constitution that guarantee human rights, and sometimes relief by courts when they are infringed.