Bill of Rights
List the 5 freedoms guaranteed under the First Amendment?
What is speech, assembly, petition, press, religion?
Protects you from an unreasonable search or seizure of your person, house, papers and effects.
What is the 4th Amendment
What is the first letter in "the bill of rights"
This allows newspapers and other agencies to report or print news and express opinions
What is freedom of the press
What is freedom of assembly?
This allows people to gather in groups.
The First Amendment says Congress cannot make any faith this, nor favor one religion over another.
What is the official religion of the United States?
The Supreme Court ruled in District of Columbia v. Heller that this amendment protects an individual's right to own a gun for self-defense.
What is the Second Amendment?
Thomas Jefferson described this as a "wall of separation" between religion and government.
What is the separation of church and state?
Which right gives you the right to gather together and protest an unfair law?
The right to assemble
If a defendant cannot afford one of these, one will be provided for them by the government
What is a lawyer
You are driving with your friends in your car and are stopped by the police. What amendment protects you from an unreasonable search?
The fourth 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 (not given) of life, liberty or property without "due process of law".)
What is the 5th Amendment
The people may peaceably do what?
Before the Revolution, Great Britain forced colonists to provide this for British soldiers.
What is food and housing (or quartering)?
In 1788, several states refused to approve the constitution, why?
It didn't lists the rights of individuals
How does the freedom of the press maintain a democratic society?
It allows individuals to be freely informed
What amendment was made in response to the British requiring the colonist to house and feed soliders?
3rd Amendment
What is double jeopardy?
When proven innocent, you cannot be tried twice for the same crime.
Before searching your home or arresting you, police must show a judge good reason and get one of these.
What is a warrant?
"Founding Father" strongly believed and promoted the ideals of separation of church and state?
Thomas Jefferson
What do we call the first 10 amendments?
The Bill of Rights
What do we call a group of citizens who decide on a court case?
a jury
This amendments gives citizens the right to bear arms, the right to own a gun
What is the second amendment
In the case of Texas v. Johnson, the Supreme Court ruled that burning this as a form of protest is protected speech.
What is the American flag?
"Due process" is in the fifth amendment, what does it mean?
The government must follow rules as it carries out the law