This group objected to the Constitution and demanded that a Bill of Rights be created.
Who were the Anti-Federalists?
100
This amendment has to do with the right to own and carry weapons.
What is the Second Amendment?
100
This amendment concerns religion, as well as the political rights of the people.
What is the First Amendment?
100
This amendment guarantees the right to be put on trial quickly if you are accused of a crime.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
100
This amendment leaves the door open for the people to assert rights that are not specifically named in the Constitution.
What is the Ninth Amendment?
200
Some of the rights contained in the Bill of Rights go back to this document from England in A.D. 1215!
What is Magna Carta?
200
This colony famously refused to comply with the Quartering Act of 1765.
What is New York?
200
This amendment concerns specifically the relationship between the powers of the Federal government and of the States.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
200
In this sort of trial, a person risks losing only property, not life or liberty.
What is a civil trial?
200
According to the Fourth Amendment, for a search to be reasonable there must be a warrant issued, which specifies these two things.
What is the place to be searched, and the thing being searched for.
300
This document, one of the predecessors of the Bill of Rights, stated that the people had the right to change or overthrow a government that was tyrannical.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
300
This amendment has to do with the quartering of troops in people's homes.
What is the Third Amendment?
300
This clause of the First Amendment prohibits the Federal government from giving official endorsement or support to religion.
What is the 'establishment clause'?
300
This amendment concerns people's rights in connection with police searches of their home and property.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
300
This clause of the Fifth Amendment protects persons against being tried twice for the same crime.
What is the 'double-jeopardy clause'?
400
A predecessor of the Bill of Rights, the English Bill of Rights, was signed by these two monarchs during the Glorious Revolution.
Who were William and Mary?
400
According to the Third Amendment, this is required in order for the government to be able to quarter soldiers in a person's house during peacetime.
What is the owner's consent?
400
The First Amendment protects the right of the people to gather peacefully and do what?
What is 'to petition the Government for a redress of grievances'?
400
According to the Fifth Amendment, this institution must make the decision to formally charge a person before that person may be put on trial for a crime.
What is a grand jury?
400
Opponents of capital punishment (executions) base their argument, at least in part, on this clause and this amendment.
What is the 'cruel and unusual punishment clause' of the Eighth Amendment?
500
This system of unfree labor was permitted by the Constitution and not mentioned in the Bill of Rights.
What is slavery?
500
This institution, according to the Second Amendment, is necessary to preserve "the security of a free State."
What is "a well-regulated militia"?
500
This First Amendment freedom is designed to protect the people's right to an unrestricted flow of political information.
What is the freedom of the press?
500
The Seventh Amendment specifies the right to a jury trial in civil suits where the amount in question is greater than this.
What is twenty dollars?
500
The Tenth Amendment states that all powers not given to the Federal government by the Constitution, and not prohibited to the States, belong to these.