United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018Bratcher, Stewart D.2005-08-12Encyclopedia article about the Georgia Bill of Rights. A bill of rights enumerates certain individual liberties and protects those liberties from governmental intrusion, unless there is a sufficiently compelling justification for government action. The Georgia Bill of Rights consists of forty paragraphs, which constitute Article I of the Constitution of 1983. Twenty-eight paragraphs enumerate individual rights, nine deal with the origins of government, and three are devoted to "general provisions."GSE identifier: SS8CG1text/htmlengForms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/Forms part of the New Georgia Encyclopedia.Georgia--Government and politicsGeorgia Bill of RightsText