Civil Liberties
The government cannot force you to belong to a specific faith nor can it deny your right to execute chickens in the practice of Santeria.
What is the 1st Amendment Freedom of Religion?
The government needs this under the 4th Amendment to get a search warrant.
What is Probable Cause?
This is a guarantee of equal social opportunities and equal protection under the law, regardless of race, religion, or other personal characteristics.
What are Civil Rights?
Made it illegal to deny someone's right to vote based on their race or ethnicity
What is the 15th Amendment?
A change or addition to the US Constitution
What is an Amendment?
Guarantees our individual right to self-defense
What is the 2nd Amendment?
The 5th Amendment prevents the government from trying a person again after a jury acquitted the person
What is Double Jeopardy?
The 13th Amendment did this.
It banned slavery in the US.
The 19th Amendment did this
What gave women the right of suffrage?
Another term for the right to vote
What is suffrage?
The right to publish a blog on the internet advocating for increased funding for mental health issues.
What is the 1st Amendment Freedom of the Press?
This protection in the 5th Amendment is hard for Mr. Haley to do but gives you "the right to plead the 5th"
What is Self-Incrimination?
This protection was included in 2 separate amendments.
What is Due Process of Law?
Lowered the voting age to 18 years of age
What is the 26th Amendment?
A list of the basic rights and freedoms of the American people
What is the Bill of Rights?
The government can take private property for public use as long as there is fair compensation.
What is the 5th Amendment Eminent Domain?
This is where one would find all of the things necessary to provide due process of law in criminal cases.
What is the 6eth Amendment?
This amendment defined what it meant to be a citizen as well as guaranteed everyone equal treatment under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Gave us the right to directly elect our US Senators
What is the 17th Amendment?
This is how we can propose a new Amendment to the US Constitution.
What is a 2/3rds vote of both Houses of Congress?
The right to express ourselves is protected here
What is the 1st Amendment?
The 8th Amendment protection for Bail protects this basic philosophy of the US criminal Justice System (4 words).
What is "Innocent Until Proven Guilty"?
The 24th Amendment did this and finally made the 15th Amendment matter.
What is banned poll taxes?
Gave 3 Electoral College votes to Washington DC
What is the 23rd Amendment?
How we ratify a new Amendment to the US Constitution.
What is a vote of 3/4ths of the state legislatures?