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The name of the first 10 amendments to the Constitution.
The Bill of Rights
A group of citizens who decide on a court case.
What is 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.
What is the 7th Amendment?
A neighbor went hunting with a gun owner's license, but the police tried to take her gun away. This amendment protects her right to a gun.
What is Amendment 2?
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, car, papers and other items belonging to you.
What is the 4th Amendment?
This amendment outlaws cruel and unusual punishment.
What is the Eighth Amendment?
This allows newspapers and other agencies to investigate, report and/or print news and express opinions on any issue they want.
What is freedom of the press?
This allows people to gather in groups (as long as there is no rioting or hate crimes committed).
What is freedom of assembly?
You are really upset about the school lunch and want to do something about it. You call a meeting of all your friends in the school library without permission. Which right are you exercising? Are you breaking the law?
1st Amendment right to assemble. However, you are on private property and that is illegal.
You are told you must wait 3 years for a trial by a jury.
This amendment was violated.
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 still OUR rights
This allows people to ask the government to correct the ideas they do not agree with.
What is freedom of petition?
True or False? There was an amendment that freed the slaves.
True. The 13th Amendment passed by Congress and ratified in 1865.
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 of (not given) life, liberty or property without "due process of law".)
What is the 5th Amendment?
The people may peaceably do this under the 1st Amendment.
assemble
Is the right to not incriminate yourself (answer questions related to your arrest or testify against yourself) the same as your Miranda Rights?
No- one is 5th amendment.
Miranda Rights are the rights that are read to you when you are arrested. They cover more than your right to not incriminate yourself.
To (preserve or seize) means to maintain something in its original or existing state
What does preserve mean?
Laws that all 50 states must follow are called _________ laws
federal laws
This Constitutional Amendment prevents citizens from being forced to quarter soldiers
What is the 3rd Amendment?
When proven innocent, you cannot be tried twice for the same crime. This is called ________________.
What is double jeopardy?
a requirement that legal matters be settled according to established rules and principles and that individuals be treated fairly
What is due process?
States that all powers not written in Constitution as belonging to the federal government belong to the states or to the people of that state.
What is the 10th amendment?