Movie Facts
Amendments 1-5
Amendments 6-10
Amendments 1-5
Amdendments 1-10
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Who is considered the father of the Constitution?
James Madison
100
What does the second amendment give people the right to do?
Bear arms
100
What does the sixth amendment address?
Rights of someone accused of a crime
100
What does "I plead the fifth" mean?
You don't have to incriminate yourself during a trial.
100
Name something that used to be legal that is now considered cruel and unusual punishment.
Firing squad, hanging, gas chamber
200
What does double jeopardy mean?
You can't be tried twice for the same crime.
200
What does the fourth amendment protect against?
Unreasonable search and seizure
200
What right do you have according to the seventh amendment?
Right to a jury trial.
200
What does "bear arms" mean?
Have a gun.
200
Name one right not protected by the Constitution that people are still able to do.
Fly on an airplane.
300
Why were people against adding a Bill of Rights to the Constitution?
They were afraid people's rights would be limited to those only listed in the Constitution.
300
What does the fifth amendment address?
Rights of someone accused of a crime.
300
What does the eighth amendment protect against?
Cruel and unusual punishment
300
Which amendment isn't that relevant to our present day life?
The third (house soldiers)
300
Give an example of a violation of the fourth amendment.
The police busting down someone's door without permission and arresting them for having drugs in their house.
400
Name one person who was against the ratification of the Constitution.
Thomas Jefferson
400
The government cannot do what according to the third amendment?
Force people to house soldiers.
400
What does the ninth amendment give people?
Rights not specifically mentioned in the Constitution.
400
What must the police have in order for a search to be considered reasonable?
A warrant
400
What does freedom of the press mean?
The government can't tell the media what to report.
500
What is a civil trial?
A trial that involves a private dispute between two people rather than a crime against society.
500
Name the 5 rights protected by the first amendment.
Religion, speech, petition, assemble, press
500
What does the tenth amendment restrict the federal government to?
Those rights only listed in the Constitution.
500
What does the right to assemble mean?
You are allowed to gather together in a large group of people to protest something.
500
Why do you think the people who wrote the Constitution wanted to limit the number of times someone could be tried for the same crime?
So that the government couldn't keep trying someone over and over until a jury came back with a guilty verdict.
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