Speak Your Mind (1st Amendment)
This freedom lets you write a letter to your representative in Congress.
What is the Freedom to Petition?
The government can't just barge into your house without one of these from a judge.
What is a warrant?
This amendment says you can't be tried twice for the same crime after being found not guilty.
What is double jeopardy?
This is the term for money or property temporarily surrendered to the court as security that the accused person will appear for trial.
This amendment says that just because a right isn't listed in the Constitution doesn't mean the people don't have it.
What is the Ninth Amendment?
Gathering peacefully with friends to protest a new law is protected by this freedom.
What is the Freedom of Assembly?
This amendment says soldiers can't be forced to live in your house without your permission during peacetime
What is the third amendment?
The government has to follow fair procedures in legal cases, which is known as this.
What is due process?
The Eighth Amendment prohibits punishments that are this, meaning they are excessive and unnecessary
What is Cruel and Unusual?
Powers that the Constitution doesn't specifically give to the federal government are reserved for the states or this.
Who are the people? or the states?
The government can't establish an official religion for the country thanks to this part of the First Amendment.
What is the freedom of religion (establishment clause)?
This legal standard means the police need a good reason to believe you've committed a crime before they can search you.
What is probable cause?
This right in the Sixth Amendment means you can question witnesses who are testifying against you in court
Requiring someone to pay an unreasonably high amount of money to be released before trial is a violation of this part of the Eighth Amendment
What is Excessive Bail?
An example of a power reserved to the states by the Tenth Amendment is the authority to establish these.
What are schools or local governments?
Even if some people disagree with it, expressing your opinion in a newspaper is generally protected by this freedom.
What is the freedom of the press?
This type of search is generally allowed if you give the police your permission.
What is consent search?
In most civil cases where the amount in dispute is over $20, this amendment guarantees your right to one of these.
What is a jury trial?
While the definition can be debated, the Eighth Amendment aims to prevent punishments that are considered inhumane or this.
What is barbaric?
The Ninth Amendment reminds us that the Bill of Rights is not this kind of list of all our rights.
What is exhaustive or complete?
Saying something that you know is false and harms someone's reputation is an example of speech that is NOT protected by this freedom.
What is slander?
The Fourth Amendment protects your "persons, houses, papers, and effects" against unreasonable ones of these
What are searches and seizures?
"I plead the fifth" refers to your right against this, meaning you don't have to testify against yourself.
What is self-incrimination?
The idea that a punishment should fit the crime is a principle related to the Eighth Amendment's protection against cruel and unusual punishments
What is proportionality? or the punishment must fit the crime.
The Tenth Amendment reinforces the principle of this, where power is divided between the federal and state governments.
What is federalism?