Hey it’s Ron White, here the founder of America’s memory.com.
The website where we tell the story of American history, give memory tips on how to remember
it.
Today we're going to tackle the Bill of Rights and how to memorize the first ten amendments
to the constitution.
To remember anything you need two things, number one a place to store the information
and the number two the information to be turned into a picture.
The first thing were going to do is were going to create ten places to store the information.
We’re going to use our body so follow after me.
One is top, two is nose, three is mouth, four is ribs, five is liver, six is joint your
hip joint, seven is cap, kneecap, eight is your fibula, this bone right here, number
nine is the ball of your foot, and number ten is the sand.
If I’m going too fast for you just rewind.
Number one is top, two is nose, three is mouth, four is ribs, five is liver, six is joint,
seven is cap, eight is fibula, nine is ball and number ten is sand.
These are ten files, we can use these files for anything we want, tomorrow you can put
ten random words on them if you want.
The first ten presidents of the United States what you want.
Right now we're going to use these ten files to memorize the first ten amendments to the
constitution The Till of Rights.
This is where were going to store the data.
The second thing we need to do to when we want to memorize something is turn whatever
we want into a picture.
So I’m going to turn these ten items into pictures and were going to put them on our
body.
Number one top of your head, the picture that I want you to see up there is somebody with
a megaphone, up here with a megaphone and their yelling and their yelling at all sides,
a megaphone at the top your head, see a megaphone right there.
Number two boom your nose gets shot off, boom your nose gets shot off by a bullet.
Number three in your mouth, were putting quarters in your mouth, open up your mouth like that
and imagine quarters are dropping in your mouth.
Number four, your ribs, I want you to see a spotlight on your ribs, a spotlight going
all over your ribs, just back and forth, a spotlight.
number five your liver I want you to see the TV show jeopardy with Alex Trebeck right there
in your liver, see him buzzing the answers trying to buzz in, you know the answers jeopardy
is the key word right there.
Spotlight here quarter’s right here.
Now we on number six, your hip joint on number six I want to see a criminal he's running
back and forth from hip joint to hip joint.
He's being chased by a judge, a criminal being chased by a judge on your hip joints.
Number seven on your knee cap I want to see a jury right here and this jury's chanting
the words civil, civil, civil.
A jury right here chanting the words civil.
Number eight, on your fibula, this bone right here I want you to see somebody with a stick
in there hitting it really hard they got a whip and there whipping you right there, bloods
coming out of your fibula.
Number nine the ball of your foot, on the ball of your foot I want you to see security
guards and their protecting that ball, their all down there their protecting him.
Nobody can get near your feet because of the security guards
Number ten on the ground, think of a picture for your state, I live in Texas so a picture
from my state as a cowboy boot.
I got cowboy boots all over the floor and I got millions of people all surrounding those
cowboy boots.
So boots and people.
There we have it that's ten pictures put on ten spots and we just memorize the first ten
amendments of the constitution the Bill of Rights.
Number one a speaker, first amendment is freedom of speech, number two a bullet the right to
bear arms, number three quarters, you do not have to quart our soldiers during time of
war, quartering soldiers is the third amended in the constitution.
Number four your protection against unreasonable search and seizure, a searchlight, a spotlight
right here.
Number five jeopardy, you will not you cannot be tried for the same crime twice its called
double jeopardy you can't be tried for the same crime twice.
Also the fifth amendment you know where you incriminate yourself you can pleased the fifth.
Number six the criminal running back and forth running real fast, that is in a crime you
are guaranteed a speedy trial run back and forth really fast in criminal cases.
Number seven civil, civil in civil case a trial by jury.
Number eight punishment, the protection from unreasonable punishment or excessive bail.
Number nine protection even though the this the wording of this is your rights are not
enumerated in the constitution are still protected basically meaning rights that aren’t mentioned
are still rights.
And then the last one number ten on the ground, it is referring to the protection of states'
rights and the rights of the people.
So there you have it, The Bill of Rights the first ten amendments to the constitution you
should have had them memorised.
If I went too fast just rewind and do this again but my names Ron White, visit us at
americasmemory.com.
I am Americas memory.