Vocabulary 1
Random
Courts
Exceptions
Miscellaneous True/False
100
The right to vote (begins with the letter "S")
What is Suffrage?
100
Many Americans believed that the ______________was aimed at preventing poor people from voting
What is poll tax?
100
To formally accuse someone of a crime
What is indict?
100
to knowingly make statements that hurt a person's reputation.
What is slander?
100
All citizens are required to serve as government officials
What is False?
200
A formal request
What is a petition?
200
To have to pay to vote
What is poll tax
200
The money that the accused pay the courts to guarantee that they show up for trial
What is bail?
200
To write something that knowingly hurts a person's reputation.
What is libel?
200
The 2nd amendments protects the right to bear arms
What is True?
300
Rights guaranteed to all citizens
What are Civil Rights?
300
Request for a government office to do something for the people
What is a Petition?
300
They decide if their is enough evidence against a person to take them to trial (hint: compound word beginning with the letter "G".
What is a grand jury?
300
To try a person a second time for the same crime.
What is double jeopardy?
300
When serving on a jury you have the right as a citizen to refuse
What is False?
400
American men must register for this to serve in the military
What is the draft?
400
How many total amendments are there
What is 27?
400
Court document that allows a place to be searched and things to be seized
What is a search warrant
400
Courts have decided to prevent people from holding prayer in public schools. This is known as
What is separation of church and state?
400
Upon turning 21 all American men must register for the draft
What is True
500
The 5th amendment protects you from _______________, which is to testify against yourself (hint:compound word).
What is self-incrimination?
500
Who wrote the Bill of Rights
Who is James Madison
500
The just and fair application of the law to an accused person's case
What is due process of law?
500
The government's power to take citizens' private property for public use
What is eminent domain?
500
Before the 23rd amendment, people living in Washington D.C., could not vote in national elections
What is True?
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