Question

The 10 amendments known as the Bill of Rights were originally intended as restrictions against

Answer 1

The bill of rights was intended as restrictions against the federal government.

There were two other initial amendments that were intended as restrictions against the states, but they were not ratified.

Note that most Most of these restrictions were later applied to the states by a series of decisions applying the due process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, which was ratified in 1868, after the American Civil War.

But ORIGINALLY were intended as restrictions against JUST THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT