The original Constitution actually guaranteed little personal liberty. However, the first 10 Amendments to the Constitution passed at the same time as the Constitution brought those liberties into focus and codified them.
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Constitutional guarantee of freedom this established in the preamble. The words in particular are; "...secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity,.."
Concerned that undelineated liberties might be withheld, the founding fathers added the first 10 amendments to the Constitution, known as the Bill of Rights.
The First Amendment alone provides for the freedom of speech, freedom of peaceful assembly, freedom to petition the government, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion.
The First Amendment to the US Constitution, part of the Bill of Rights, prohibits the government from passing laws that deny the freedom of speech, religion, or of the press, or that deny the right of lawful assembly, or the right to petition.
The Bill of Rights would be the specific portion of the Constitution that protects individual rights.
Civil Liberties.
They set up a Constitution guaranteeing you personal freedoms and protection under the law.
Most of the amendments describe the rights of American citizens. The first 10 amendments are called the Bill of Rights.
In the Constitution, it is the "Bill of Rights" (another way of referring to the first ten amendments) which gives a list of the rights that Americans are guaranteed. These include freedom of speech, freedom of the press ("press" is an old word for journalism or media), freedom of religion, and freedom of assembly.
Denied powers are powers no one can take away (personal freedoms in the Bill of Rights)