Bill of Rights
How many amendments are in the Bill of Rights?
What is 10?
A group of random citizens who decide on the guilt or innocence of someone on trial?
What is a jury?
The 2nd amendment allows citizens to own and operate firearms, as long as they have a ___________.
...own and operate firearms, (as long as they have a license)
This guarantees a citizens right not to be tried twice for the same crime? (hint: what is the name of this game?
What is Double Jeopardy?
If you want to invoke the 5th amendment, what is something you can say?
I plead the 5th
These rights are guaranteed under the First Amendment.
What are speech, assembly, petition, press, religion?
4th Amendment protects you from the governments desire to search your property, papers, or effects. What must the Government have in order to conduct searches and seizures?
What is a warrant.
The 8th amendment stops the government from torturing people found guilty of a crime. What is the more common phrase used to describe acts like torture and unsafe conditions in prison.
What is Cruel and Unusual punishment.
This right under the 1st Amendment stops the government from censoring newspapers, magazines and other media
What is freedom of the press?
This part of 1st Amendment allows people to gather in groups to peacefully protest
What is freedom of assembly or right to assemble?
During the pledge of allegiance, we are all instructed to bow our heads in prayer, this may be a violation of which freedom? Found in which Amendment?
What is freedom of religion and what is the First Amendment
This amendment concerns the rights of the accused individuals on trial. If the accused cannot afford a lawyer a public defender is provided, a right provided by the ______ Amendment. This right is in the 1st five amendments or the last five amendments
What is the 6th Amendment?
Where are powers given to the Federal Government listed? (Hint: also the highest law of the land)
What is the U.S. Constitution?
This amendment is about powers not named in the constitution.
What is the 10th Amendment.
Under the 6th Amendment, If a defendant cannot afford one of these, one will be provided for them by the government
What is a lawyer, counsel, attorney?
I am a journalist from the Buff Newspaper and I show up at the Mayor's Office for a potential story, I am expressing my freedom of _____, found in the _____ Amendment.
What is the Freedom of the Press, found in what is the 1st Amendment.
This amendment protects a person accused of a crime from being a witness against his or herself.
What is the 5th Amendment
This amendment protects people's other unnamed rights, like the right to privacy.
What is the 9th Amendment
This part of the 1st Amendment says that the government cannot force you to pray or stop you from praying. (be specific)
Free Exercise Clause of the Freedom of Religion
Mr. Roberts went hunting with a gun. He bought it legally, had a license. but the police tried to take his gun away. How does the 2nd amendment prevent this?
What is the right to bear arms.
This Amendment is an OLD and outdated amendment, dating as far back as the Boston Massacre, which says that the government cannot place soldiers in your home.
What is the Quartering Act or Amendment number 3?
A man is arrested and not put on trial for so many years. What part of the 6th amendment has been violated?
What is the right to a Fair and Speedy Trial
I get pulled over by a police officer. He asks me to step out of my vehicle so he can search it. What amendment protects me from him searching my vehicle?
What is the 4th Amendment
As soon as what I say threatens or impedes on the rights of another, I am no longer protected under this freedom, _____________. What amendment am I?
A police officer enters your home .He has no warrant or probable cause to believe a crime has been committed. What amendment is violated
What is the 4th Amendment?