According to the author, one of the leading American lawyers, a specialist in the field of international and immigration law, America has become a great country thanks to its Constitution and Bill of Rights. It will be interesting and useful for the Russian reader to learn why, along with the Constitution, the Americans also needed amendments to it, what common law is and how it differs from continental law, how the US Supreme Court functions - what it does and how decisions are made. And finally, each of the first ten amendments to the US Constitution, which make up the Bill of Rights, is devoted to a separate chapter, which presents the most interesting, from the author’s point of view, Supreme Court cases relating to this amendment. In total, the book discusses or mentions more than 80 cases considered by the Supreme Court, more than half of which are analyzed in some detail.