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With respect to the investigation and prosecution of criminal conduct what are the major provisions of the Bill of Rights?

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1. With respect to the investigation and prosecution of criminal conduct what are the major provisions of the Bill of Rights?
The major provisions of the Bill of Rights are as follows:

THE BILL OF RIGHTS

The Amendments to the Constitution

Ratified 1791

ARTICLES IN ADDITION TO, AND AMENDMENT OF, THE CONSTITUTION OF
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PROPOSED BY CONGRESS, AND RATIFIED
BY THE LEGISLATURES OF THE SEVERAL STATES, PURSUANT TO THE 5th
ARTICLE OF THE ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION.

(The first 10 Amendments were ratified 15 December 1791, and
form what is known as the 'Bill of Rights'.)

AMENDMENT I

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of reli-
gion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the
freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people
peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a re-
dress of grievances.

AMENDMENT II

A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a
free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall
not be infringed.

AMENDMENT III

No Soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house,
without the consent of the Owner, nor in time of war, but in ...

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