The First
Cruel and unusual punishment, right to a trial by jury, no self incrimination and freedom to assemble are all rights guaranteed by the constitution, but this right is guaranteed by the first amendment
What is freedom to assemble?
This document guarantees the protection of individual freedoms
What is bill of rights?
Using the excerpt below, This right is guaranteed in the United States...
No one shall be subjected to torture . . . or degrading treatment. . . .
—Universal Declaration of Human Rights
What is forbidding unusual penalties in the Eighth Amendment
This concept is central to the idea of due process in the United States
What is innocent until proven guilty?
This statement correctly identifies one of the first steps in the process required for amending the Constitution?
The bill must pass both houses with identical language.
The U.S. Supreme Court adhered to this constitutional principle in its decision in Brown v. Board of Education.
What is equal protection under the law?
Using the excerpt below, this situation applies to this section of the 5th Amendment...
. . . nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.
—5th Amendment, U.S. Constitution
What is a person wants to donate private land to a school.
During the 1950s, the Supreme Court ruled against segregation in public schools in this landmark case
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Using the excerpt below, this action is protected by the 1st amendment
Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or . . . the right of the people peaceably to assemble. . . .
—1st Amendment
What is unions can organize protests?
Using the excerpt below, this concept from the U.S. Constitution did the Supreme Court use to make this decision?
The warning of the right to remain silent must be accompanied by the explanation that anything said can and will be used against the individual in court. This warning is needed in order to make him aware not only of the privilege, but also of the consequences of forgoing it. . . .
—Miranda v. Arizona, 1966
What is due process rights?
Using the excerpt below, This amendment was based on this decision...
“All evidence obtained by searches and seizures in violation of the Federal Constitution is inadmissible in a criminal trial in a state court.”
Mapp v. Ohio, 1961
What is the 4th amendmnent?
This MOST likely represents an example of someone being denied an Eighth Amendment right?
A judge sets bail at one million dollars for a painter accused of charging a customer too much for a job.
The first amendment protects Freedom of speech, Freedom of the press, Freedom of religion, right to peacefully assemble and this...
What is right to petition?
These rights were extended by the 15th, 19th, 23rd, and 26th amendments
voting rights
Use the passage below, A judge hearing the homeowner’s challenge to the officers’ actions would have to consider this constitutional right...
Two police officers suspect that the owner of a house is selling pirated DVD movies. They go to the house and knock on the door. One of the officers explains his suspicions to a man who answers the door and asks to search the house. The man tells the officers that he doesn’t live there but lets them into the house, anyway. After searching the house, the officers find hundreds of copies of a recent movie that they determine to be pirated. The homeowner challenges the charges that are subsequently filed against her.
What is the Fourth Amendment right against illegal search and seizure?
The Fifth Amendment provides the defendant with this special rights
What is the right to refuse to answer a question that may incriminate oneself
Which feature of the U.S. government prevents hundreds from being arrested after speaking out against government
What is the Constitutional protection of free expression
Under the provisions of the Fourth Amendment and federal law, this is required for a school administrator to conduct a lawful search of a student
What is reasonable suspicion a crime has been committed?
Using the passage below, this change in the United States Constitution addressed the concerns expressed by Susan B. Anthony in her speech...
One-half of the people of this nation to-day are utterly powerless to blot from the statute books an unjust law, or to write there a new and a just one. The women, dissatisfied as they are with this form of government, that enforces taxation without representation, –that compels them to obey laws to which they have never given their consent, –that imprisons and hangs them without a trial by a jury of their peers, that robs them, in marriage, of the custody of their own persons, wages and children, –are this half of the people left wholly at the mercy of the other half, in direct violation of the spirit and letter of the declarations of the framers of this government, every one of which was based on the immutable [unchanging] principle of equal rights to all.
—Susan B. Anthony, 1872
What is the Nineteenth Amendment recognized women’s right to vote.
Supreme Court cases such as Miranda v. Arizona, Gideon v. Wainwright and Roe v. Wade are illustrative of this type of law.
What is constitutional law?