Sources of Power
This source of power uses money to create the ability to buy other kinds of power.
Wealth
A person who donates food to a local food drive is demonstrating this type of participant behavior.
Personally Responsible
This amendment guarantees the right to keep and bear arms.
Second amendment
This amendment prevents soldiers from being quartered in private homes without the owner's consent during times of peace.
Third Amendment
The essential course question asks what knowledge, skills, and dispositions a person needs to be a powerful civic actor, and how young people can use their rights to promote the __________________.
Common good
Control of this is power at its most primal, often used by the police and military.
Physical force
This type of participant takes leadership positions in community or government groups to work within the system and make it better.
Participatory
This amendment protects citizens from unreasonable searches and seizures and requires probable cause for warrants.
Fourth Amendment
This amendment protects against excessive bail, excessive fines, and cruel and unusual punishments.
Eighth Amendment
This key principle in the Constitution means that the government only has the powers granted to it by the people, protecting individual power and rights.
Limited Government
This source of power relies on a large group of people expressing a collective goal to gain legitimacy through their support.
Numbers
A participant who organizes a food drive fits into this specific category.
Participatory
Freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, right to assemble, and right to petition are all found in this amendment.
First Amendment
This amendment guarantees the accused the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury, as well as the right to a lawyer (assistance of counsel).
Sixth Amendment
This crucial post-Civil War amendment protects due process and guarantees equal protection under the law for all citizens.
The Fourteenth Amendment
This source of power uses law and bureaucracy to compel people to do or not do certain things.
State action
This type of participant questions how society works, looks at the underlying causes of problems, and takes action when the system is unfair.
Justice Oriented
This amendment protects against self-incrimination ("the right to remain silent"), double jeopardy, and guarantees due process of law.
Fifth Amendment
This amendment preserves the right to a jury trial in civil common law suits where the value in controversy exceeds twenty dollars.
Seventh Amendment
In the landmark Supreme Court case New Jersey v. T.L.O., the Court established that school officials do not need a warrant or probable cause to search students, but instead must have this standard.
Reasonable Suspicion
These two sources of power involve social expectations that guide choices based on how others see you, or motivating people to change how they think or act.
Social norms and ideas
A participant who researches why people are hungry to solve the root causes of hunger belongs to this category
Justice oriented
These two amendments state that rights not listed belong to the people, and powers not delegated to the federal government are reserved for the states or the people
Ninth and Tenth Amendments
This amendment explicitly clarifies that just because certain rights are listed in the Constitution, it does not mean other rights retained by the people are denied or disparaged
Ninth Amendment
In the landmark Supreme Court case Tinker v. Des Moines, the Court famously ruled that students do not shed their constitutional rights to free speech at this location.
The schoolhouse gate.