Newly updated edition! Discover everything you need to know about your constitutional freedoms in this fact-packed introduction to the Bill of Rights! You've probably heard before that the United States is a "free country." But what does that actually mean? Dive into the Bill of Rights and discover how the first ten amendments to the Constitution came to be, what they mean and why they're important, and how they still protect our rights today, more than 200 years after they were written!.