Bill of Rights
What do we call the first 10 amendments?
The Bill of Rights
What do we call a group of citizens who decide on a court case?
a jury
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 over $20
What is the 7th Amendment
Issued by a court or judge, this Allows the police to legally arrest, search or seize
What is a warrant
List the 5 freedoms guaranteed under the First Amendment?
What is speech, assembly, petition, press, religion?
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 allows newspapers and other agencies to report or print news and express opinions
What is freedom of the press
What is freedom of assembly?
This allows people to gather in groups.
What are laws called that all 50 states must follow?
federal laws
You are told you must wait 3 years for a trial by a jury.
This violates what amendment?
What is the 6th Amendment
What does the ninth Amendment say about rights not listed in the Constitution?
Other rights and liberties not listed in the Constitution are kept by the people
This allows people to ask the government to correct the ideas they do not agree with
What is freedom of petition
If a defendant cannot afford one of these, one will be provided for them by the government
What is a lawyer
You are driving with your friends in your car and are stopped by the police. What amendment protects you from an unreasonable search?
The fourth amendment
The Constitutional Amendment that gives you "the right to remain silent." (It also says you can't be tried twice for the same crime or be deprived (not given) of life, liberty or property without "due process of law".)
What is the 5th Amendment
The people may peaceably do what?
The government takes your home to build a road.
This violates what amendment?
5th amendment
A neighbor went hunting with a gun owner's license, but the police tried to take her gun away. What amendment protects her right to a gun?
What is Amendment 2
He wrote the first 12 amendments?
James Madison
What is the Constitutional Amendment that prevents citizens from being forced to quarter soldiers?
What is the 3rd Amendment?
What is double jeopardy?
When proven innocent, you cannot be tried twice for the same crime.
What does due process mean?
treated fairly in the judicial system and following the laws e.g.
people get a trial by jury, know the charges, have/question witnesses, a lawyer is provided, speedy trial, no double jeopardy
A police officer pulls you over for speeding and swerving all over the road. He tells you that he is going to search your car. Why aren't you protected by the fourth amendment
probable cause