Bill of Rights
This amendment protects Americans from cruel and unusual punishment
What is the Eighth Amendment?
You are walking down the street when a police officer stops you and starts searching your backpack without asking for your consent or showing a warrant. This amendment is being violated.
Fourth Amendment: Protection from unreasonable searches and seizures
The Fourteenth Amendment defined this for the first time in American history
What is citizenship?
This Supreme Court case allowed the Supreme Court the ability to perform judicial review
What is Marbury v. Madison (1803)?
These are taken every ten years and generally precede redistricting. Hint: these are constitutionally required
What are census counts?
This amendment prevents the government from forcing individuals to testify against themselves, historically limiting the use of coercion and forced confessions
What is the Fifth Amendment?
You are charged with a crime, but your trial is continuously postponed, and you end up waiting in jail for several years before your case is heard. This Amendment is being violated.
Sixth Amendment: The right to a speedy trial
In this Supreme Court case the Supreme Court concluded that racial segregation in public education was inherently unequal
What is Brown v. Board of Education (1954)?
These specific situations can be used to set precedents and generally involve a person or institution in legal trouble
What are California, Michigan, Missouri, and Colorado?
This was created primarily to avoid the creation of a national religion
What is the establishment clause of the First Amendment?
During an interrogation, the police ask you a series of questions about a crime, and you feel pressured to answer. You are not informed that you have the right to remain silent. Which Amendment are officers potentially violating?
What is the Fifth Amendment via Miranda v. Arizona (1966)? – Individuals must be informed of their right to remain silent
This was created primarily to prevent governments from denying people equal protection under the law
What is the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment?
The power of courts to examine and potentially invalidate actions, laws, or government decisions
What is judicial review?
The mid-cycle redistricting currently taking place began when this state took the unusual step to redrew its districts in 2025 to give partisan advantage
What is Texas?
This amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
Which amendment is being violated? The government tries a man for murder and loses the case. A jury says he is innocent. The district attorney who prosecuted the case is mad and promises to keep trying him until they get a jury to convict him. The defendant thinks this is unfair.
Fifth Amendment prohibition of trying the same person multiple times for the same crime
This future Supreme Court justice helped lead the NAACP’s legal strategy against segregation
Who is Thurgood Marshall?
When the Supreme Court makes a decision, the majority pens this to explain the legal reasoning for the decision
What is a majority opinion?
When one party controls the governorship and both legislative chambers it is referred to as this
What is a trifecta?
This amendment guarantees a fair and speedy trial
What is the Sixth Amendment?
A young woman is being tried for treason. She is accussed of selling plans to build a nuclear weapon to Iran. The judge believes it would be dangerous to let the public hear her ideas. He refuses to allow anyone to view the trial. Which Amendment is being violated?
Sixth Amendment guarantees the right to a public trial
This was the only Supreme Court Justice to dissent in Plessy v. Ferguson and argued that the Constitution is “color-blind”
Who is John Marshall Harlan?
This Supreme Court Case case established the guidelines for stopping a person and frisking them required "reasonable suspicion"
What is Terry v. Ohio (1968)?
This Supreme Court case determined that the purposeful creation of majority Black districts, required by the Civil Rights Act of 1964, created illegal racial gerrymanders
What is Louisiana v. Callais (2026)?