Summarize how water is shared among users.

water distribution is first go to those in need and the amount of water is based on the size of the irrigated fields. users must clear weeds, keep animals out of the ditches, and be sure not to block or dam the ditches because farmers downstream also have rights to the water.

utilized the penal colony

protected civil liberties and outlawed slavery in the new territories.

the first 10 amendments to the u.s. constitution are known as the bill of rights. those 10 amendments establish the most basic freedoms for americans including the rights to worship how they want, speak how they want, and assembly and peaceably protest their government how they want. the amendments have also been subject to much interpretation since their adoption, particularly the right to carry a gun under the second amendment.

"a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference," said thomas jefferson, the author of the declaration of independence and the third president of the united states.