the total number of amendments including the bill of rights is twenty - seven.
the total number of amendments including the bill of rights is twenty - seven.
total number of amendments including the bill of rights?
twenty - seven
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the supreme court has consistently held that fifth amendment due process means substantially the same as fourteenth amendment due process, and therefore the original meaning of the former is relevant to the incorporation doctrine of the latter. when the bill of rights was originally proposed by congress in 1789 to the states, various substantive and procedural rights were "classed according to their affinity to each other" instead of being submitted to the states "as a single act to be adopted or rejected in the gross", as james madison put it. roger sherman explained in 1789 that each amendment "may be passed upon distinctly by the states, and any one that is adopted by three fourths of the legislatures may become a part of the constitution". thus, the states were allowed to reject the sixth amendment, for example, while ratifying all of the other amendments including the due process clause; in that case, the rights in the sixth amendment would not have been incorporated against the federal government. the doctrine of incorporating the content of other amendments into "due process" was thus an innovation, when it began in 1925 with the "gitlow" case, and this doctrine remains controversial today.
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