Amendments
This amendment states that US citizens have the right to bare arms.
What is the 2nd Amendment?
This amendment protects freedom of speech, religion, press, petition, and protest.
What is the 1st Amendment?
You are called to the office because the principal thinks you vandalized the restroom. You refuse to answer any questions.
What amendment right are you exercising?
What is the 5th Amendment?
A person who enters a room and screams "Bomb!" just to see the reaction of the people in the room. They are protected under which amendment?
What is they are not protected?
Bonus 100 Points: The First Amendment does not protect speech that intentionally causes public panic or poses a clear and immediate danger to safety
True or False: Due Process ensures that a person's rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness is not infringed upon by the government.
What is true?
This amendment states "You do not have to quarter Soldiers"?
What is the 3rd Amendment?
This amendment states "people have the right to a fair trial".
What is the 5th Amendment?
You send a letter to your congressman or congresswoman to tell them that you think their new plan to make the highway wider is stupid and that all they do is waste your tax money.
What amendment right are you exercising?
What is the 1st amendment?
The police pull you over and demand to search your car. They search every part of the car and take some of your personal items.
What amendment right protects you?
What is the 4th Amendment?
The total amount of amendments as of 1992.
What is 27?
This amendment states that people have the right to a speedy trial.
What is the 6th Amendment?
This amendment prevents unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the 4th amendment?
Due to the expense of the war with Iran, the government asks American households to provide the cost to feed and house three Soldiers.
What amendment right is being infringed upon?
What is the 3rd Amendment?
A person is accused of committing a burglary. He is found innocent in a trial by jury a few months after the incident. Only three months after being found innocent, he is arrested by the police for committing a nearly identical crime. Because the circumstances are so similar, the prosecutor’s office decides to try him again for the first burglary because it is now very obvious that he was guilty.
What amendment right is being infringed upon?
What is the 5th amendment?
The author of the Bill of Rights
Who is James Madison?
This amendment states that accused people can remain out of jail until their trail, if they pay bail.
What is the 8th Amendment?
This amendment states that people who have a disagreement over more than $20 can have a trial by jury.
What is the 7th amendment?
*Today, other federal rules require most civil claims in federal court to involve much higher amounts (usually over $75,000)
Instead of having a regular court proceeding, the judge tells you to come to his office to settle the matter.
What amendment right is being infringed upon?
What is the 7th Amendment?
You are fined $5,000 for stealing a candy bar.
What amendment are you protected under?
What is the 8th amendment?
The eldest signer of the constitution.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This amendment states that people have rights outside of those stated in the Constitution.
What is the 9th Amendment?
This amendment states that any powers not stated in the Constitution belong to individual states.
What is the 10th Amendment?
The state of Georgia sets a maximum speed limit of 70 miles per hour that everyone who drives in this state must follow.
What amendment right is being exercised?
What is the 10th Amendment?
Your neighbor looks in your mailbox to see what kind of mail you get. You decided to contact the police because it violates your right to privacy.
What amendment right are you exercising?
What is the 9th Amendment?
The two infamous founding fathers that DID NOT sign the constitution?
Who is Thomas Jefferson and John Adams?
*The didn't sign the Constitution because they were serving as diplomats in France and Great Britain