Freedom Five (The 1st Amendment)
This freedom lets you write an angry letter to the editor of your school newspaper.
What is Freedom of the Press?
This is the official paper a judge signs that lets the police look through your house.
What is a Warrant?
The police must let you talk to one of these legal helpers if you are accused of a crime.
Who is an Attorney (or Lawyer)?
The Second Amendment protects the right to keep and carry this.
What are Arms (or Guns/Weapons)?
This is the official number of amendments in the Bill of Rights.
What is Ten?
This freedom lets you tell a joke about the President without getting arrested.
What is Freedom of Speech?
The police must have this good reason to search you or your belongings.
What is Probable Cause?
If you are accused of stealing, the government can't keep trying you again and again for the same theft. This rule is called...
What is Double Jeopardy?
The Third Amendment prevents the government from forcing you to do this for soldiers during peacetime.
What is Quarter (or House/Feed) them?
The Tenth Amendment says that any powers not given to the federal government belong to these two groups.
Who are the States and the People?
This freedom lets you gather with friends to protest if they cut recess short.
What is Freedom of Assembly?
The Fourth Amendment protects you from this kind of search or seizure.
What is Unreasonable?
Saying "I plead the Fifth" means you won't have to speak at your own trial, even if the question might make you look guilty. This is the right against self-...
What is Incrimination (or the Right to Remain Silent)?
The Second Amendment says that this is necessary to the security of a free state.
What is a Well-regulated Militia?
The Ninth Amendment says that just because a right isn't listed in the Constitution, it doesn't mean that the people don't have it. These unlisted rights are also called...
What are Other Rights?
This freedom lets you ask the government to change a rule you think is unfair.
What is Freedom to Petition?
The thing the Fourth Amendment says police cannot take from you without a good reason.
What is your Property (or Papers/Effects)?
The Sixth Amendment guarantees you the right to a trial that happens right away, not one that takes five years to start. This is a speedy one of these.
What is a Trial?
This is the time when the Third Amendment says you might have to let soldiers stay in your home, but only if a law allows it.
What is Wartime?
This level of government (like your local police or school board) gets to use many of the powers reserved by the Tenth Amendment.
What is the State (or Local) government?
The freedom to go to any church, temple, or mosque you choose, or to not go to one at all.
What is Freedom of Religion?
This is the special officer who must approve a search warrant.
Who is a Judge?
This is the promise in the Fifth Amendment that the government must follow all the rules and treat you fairly before they can take away your freedom.
What is Due Process?
This is the official name for a law passed by the government.
What is an Act of Congress?
A right protected by the Ninth Amendment that isn't written down, like the right to choose where you live or the right to privacy.
What is an Unenumerated Right (or Unlisted Right)?