First Amendment (General)
First Amendment's location.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Two grade school students, who were Jehovah’s Witnesses, were expelled from school for their refusal to salute the U.S. flag or recite the pledge. They refused because their religious convictions dictated it was a sin to salute the flag.
What is West Virginia State Board of Education v. Barnette?
Amendment for Freedom of Speech.
The year the Constitution was written
What is 1787?
BONUS: When was it ratified?
The type of vegetable that deters vampires.
What is Garlic?
The five rights listed in the First Amendment.
What are Speech, Press, Religion, Assembly, and the right to Petition the government?
A group of teenage students planned to wear black armbands to school to protest the Vietnam War. The students wore the armbands and were subsequently suspended.
What is Tinker v. Des Moines Independent School District?
Case that stated: Neither students nor teachers “shed their constitutional rights to freedom of speech or expression at the schoolhouse gate.”
What is Tinker?
The amount of Constitutional Amendments.
What is 27?
The meaning of the word "hallow."
What is saint or holy person?
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of _________, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
What is religion?
A high school student was suspended for wearing a jacket with the Confederate battle flag sewn onto his sleeve.
What is Melton v. Young?
The conduct of the student would materially and substantially interferes with the requirements of appropriate discipline in the operation of the school.
What is the standard for the school to discipline students?
The name of the opening of the Constitution.
What is the Preamble?
BONUS: Recite the preamble for double points.
The country Halloween originated.
What is Ireland?
The author of the First Amendment.
Who is James Madison?
A student was suspended for giving a speech nominating a classmate for student government, which included several, deliberate, sexual innuendos.
What is Bethel Sch. Dist. No. 403 v. Fraser?
Protected or not? Speech that is lewd.
What is not protected under the First Amendment?
The name of the first 10 amendments of the Constitution.
The original vegetable Jack-O-Lanterns were made from.
What are turnips?
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a ______________________.
A student was suspended for holding a banner that read “Bong Hits 4 Jesus” at a school event.
What is Morse v. Frederick?
Protected or not? Speech that promotes marijuana use.
What is (technically) not protected?
Specifically sets forth the Executive branch of government.
What is Article II?
The state where it is illegal to dress as a nun or a priest for Halloween.
What is Alabama?
According to Section 13A-14-4, impersonating the clergy is a misdemeanor with a fine up to $500 or up to a year in jail.