Bill of Rights
The number of amendments in the Bill of Rights, as ratified in 1791.
What is 10
This amendment make sure that you are punished fairly, but not too harshly if you are found guilty of a crime.
What is the 8th amendment?
This right is granted under the 2nd amendment.
What is the right to bear arms?
This amendment guarantees a right to a jury trial in civil cases/
What is the 7th Amendment?
This is one of the rights guaranteed under the first amendment.
What is speech, assembly, petition, press, or religion?
This amendment protects you from an unreasonable search or seizure of your house or property.
What is the 4th Amendment?
The fourth amendment protects you from this.
What is unlawful search and seizure?
This amendment allows newspapers and other agencies to report news and express opinions.
What is freedom of the press?
This person was credited for being the one to propose a set of amendments that would later become the Bill of Rights.
Who was James Maidson?
This amendment gives you the right to a fair and speedy trial.
What is the 6th Amendment?
The 10th Amendment states that any power not specifically given to the government in the Constitution is left to this two groups.
Who are the people and the states?
This allows people to formally change something in the government with signatures.
What is freedom of petition
This is the name for a change or addition to the US Constitution.
What is an amendment?
The Constitutional Amendment that gives you "the right to remain silent." (It also says you can't be tried twice for the same crime or be deprived of life, liberty or property without "due process of law".)
What is the 5th Amendment?
What is where you live and what you do for a job?
You cannot be put on trial twice for the same crime. The fifth amendment protects you from _______ _______
What is double jeopardy
It was in this month that congress voted to ratify (or approve) The Bill of Rights.
What is September?
The amendment that prevents the government from making us house soldiers in our homes.
What is the third amendment?
The First Amendment protects your freedom to say what you want, even if it is untrue unless you fall into this category of people.
Who are members of the press/ reporters/ journalists?
What document is the bill of rights apart of
What is the Constitution
A police officer pulls you over for speeding.He has no warrant or probable cause.What amendment protects you from this?
What is the fourth admendment