Bill of Rights Info
The Bill of Rights contains this many amendments.
What is 10?
This amendment prevents the government from quartering soldiers in your home.
What is the 3rd Amendment?
This amendments gives citizens the right to bear arms, the right to own a gun
What is the second amendment?
Guarantees a right to a jury trial in civil cases (involving amounts more than $20.00)
What is the 7th Amendment?
Issued by a court or judge, this allows the police to arrest you and/or search you and your property.
What is a search warrant?
This group pushed for addition of the Bill of Rights in order to ratify the Constitution.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
Protects you from an unreasonable search or seizure of your person, house, papers and effects.
What is the 4th Amendment?
This amendment outlaws cruel and unusual punishments.
What is the Eighth Amendment?
This freedom (give location) allows newspapers and other agencies to report or print news and express opinions.
What is freedom of the press in the First Amendment?
This clause is the basis for the idea of "separation of church and state."
What is the Establishment Clause?
He was the main writer of the Bill of Rights.
Who was James Madison?
Gives you the right to know of charges against you, face your accusers, and also to have "counsel", i.e., an attorney.
What is the 6th Amendment?
These are all five of the rights in the First Amendment.
What are speech, press, assembly, religion, and petition?
This right (give location) allows people to band together to ask the government to correct the ideas they do not agree with.
What is freedom of petition in the First Amendment?
These powers are protected in the Tenth Amendment.
What are Reserved Powers?
The most recent amendment was ratified in this decade.
What is the 1990s?
The Constitutional Amendment that gives you "the right to remain silent."
What is the 5th Amendment?
This amendment says that there are other rights and liberties not listed in the Constitution that are still protected.
What is the Ninth Amendment?
This amendment says that the government can't take your life, liberty or property without due process.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
The passage of the 14th Amendment coupled with this concept allowed freedoms in the Bill of Rights to also apply to the states.
What is selective incorporation?
This amendment is the only one in the Bill of Rights that isn't focused on individual rights.
What is the 10th Amendment?
_____ _____ is when the government can take your property if they offer you a fair amount and it's to be used for the public. This is in the _____ Amendment.
What are eminent domain and the 5th Amendment?
In which amendment is double jeopardy (when proven innocent, you cannot be tried twice for the same crime) found?
What is the 5th Amendment?
This amendment says that you have the right to an attorney.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
These are the first four words of the Second Amendment.
What is "A Well Regulated Militia?"