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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is a nonpartisan, non-profit organization whose stated mission is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States." It works through litigation and lobbying.

The ACLU has 1,000,000 members and an annual budget of over $100 million.

Local affiliates of the ACLU are active in almost all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico.

The ACLU provides legal assistance in cases when it considers civil liberties to be at risk.

Legal support from the ACLU can take the form of direct legal representation or preparation of amicus curiae briefs expressing legal arguments when another law firm is already providing representation.

A More Perfect Union: America Becomes a Nation is a 1989 American feature film dramatizing the events of the Constitutional Convention.

The film was produced by Brigham Young University to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the drafting of the United States Constitution, and many professors from BYU's School of Fine Arts and Communications were involved in its production either as actors or in other capacities.

After its release, the film was officially recognized by the Commission on the Bicentennial of the United States Constitution as "of exceptional merit".

The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments to the United States Constitution.

Proposed following the oftentimes bitter 1787–88 battle over ratification of the U.S. Constitution, and crafted to address the objections raised by Anti-Federalists, the Bill of Rights amendments add to the Constitution specific guarantees of personal freedoms and rights, clear limitations on the government's power in judicial and other proceedings, and explicit declarations that all powers not specifically delegated to Congress by the Constitution are reserved for the states or the people.

The concepts codified in these amendments are built upon those found in several earlier documents, including the Virginia Declaration of Rights and the English Bill of Rights 1689, along with earlier documents such as Magna Carta (1215).

A person is a being, such as a human, that has certain capacities or attributes constituting personhood, which in turn is defined differently by different authors in different disciplines, and by different cultures in different times and places.

A contract is a voluntary arrangement between two or more parties that is enforceable by law as a binding legal agreement.

Contract is a branch of the law of obligations in jurisdictions of the civil law tradition.

Contract law concerns the rights and duties that arise from agreements.