What's the most important Bill of Rights amendment?

[Paramitas]

In my opinion, it'd be the 9th. What do you think?

[JerryArkansas]

the first, then the second

[Blue3]

1st, without a doubt. It's what protected the country from a theocracy and allowed freedom of speech for the last 200+ years.

[freefair]

First. Almost every country on earth that has since drafted a constitution has copied it, even dictatorships pay lip service to it. Secularism and free expression are at the heart of what America is.

[politicallefty]

Without hesitation, the 1st Amendment is the most important. I do not believe you can have a truly free society without such protections. Unfortunately, the courts have carved out far too many exceptions. I believe the text of the amendment provides for an absolute right of free speech. Justice Black mostly got it right with this protection, though I do disagree with his findings of conduct being unprotected (such as in Tinker v. Des Moines). I take the the line of "Congress shall make no law..." quite literally (and its application against the states through the 14th Amendment).

A better question might be a top 2 or 3. In that case, I'd say the 4th Amendment is the second most important. Its importance really cannot be understated. After that, it's probably be the 5th Amendment.

[Frodo]

The First doesn't count for much unless you have the means (i.e., the Second) with which to defend it.  

[wan]

1st 2nd 3rd 4th 5th 8th 9th

[Vosem]

First. Almost every country on earth that has since drafted a constitution has copied it, even dictatorships pay lip service to it. Secularism and free expression are at the heart of what America is.

[Snowstalker Mk. II]

1>4>5>9>6>8>7>2>10>3

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

1>4>5>9>6>8>7>2>10>3

[Antonio the Sixth]

the first, then the second

ROFLMAO

Anyway, the 1st and the one about due process (can't remember which one it was) are the most essential.

[H.E. VOLODYMYR ZELENKSYY]

the first, then the second

ROFLMAO

Anyway, the 1st and the one about due process (can't remember which one it was) are the most essential.

The 5th, but the one used to extend the protections of the Bill of Rights to the states is the 14th.

But that's not the Bill of Rights.

[CatoMinor]

I would argue all of them are of equal importance, however even though I personally like the 1st, 4th, and 10th best, the 2nd is the only one which guarantees the ability to protect the others.

[Stranger in a strange land]

First. Almost every country on earth that has since drafted a constitution has copied it, even dictatorships pay lip service to it. Secularism and free expression are at the heart of what America is.

THIS.

[dead0man]

1st

[Franzl]

I would argue all of them are of equal importance, however even though I personally like the 1st, 4th, and 10th best, the 2nd is the only one which guarantees the ability to protect the others.

Yeah good luck fighting for them with your guns.

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

21st

[bedstuy]

By far the most important are the 1st, 5th and 4th.  More specifically, free speech and due process are the most important rights. 

I don't understand saying that the 2nd Amendment is all that important.  Do people seriously think guns would be banned if not for the 2nd Amendment?  There really have only been two important 2nd Amendment cases in US history. 

[Link]

1st.  Most useless in the modern world of course is the 2nd.

[SPC]

4th and 10th are so low because they aren't that respected.

If that's the standard, then shouldn't the 3rd be the most important?

[Goldwater]

First. Almost every country on earth that has since drafted a constitution has copied it, even dictatorships pay lip service to it. Secularism and free expression are at the heart of what America is.

[The world will shine with light in our nightmare]

First.  Without the freedom to speak your mind and practice your religion (if you so choose), America wouldn't be America.

[Gamecock]

It kind of really has to be the First. Although the Fourth Amendment has been one of the most important in constitutional issues of recent date.

[MrWesten]

The most important to me is the first, fifth and sixth.
I believe that even though we have "free speech" that the fifth and sixth happen follow suit when we have said something that is not considered "free speech" and has put us in the land of the courts.

[All Along The Watchtower]

1st, obviously.