The First Amendment
Random
Amendment V
Civil Rights Struggle
Name the Amendment
100
Banning printed materials or films merely because they contain alarming or offensive ideas.
What is censorship?
100
A court order allowing law enforcement officers to search a suspect's home or business and take specific items as evidence.
What is a search warrant?
100
Putting someone on trial for a crime of which he or she was previously acquitted.
What is double jeopardy?
100
Unfair treatment based on prejudice against a certain group.
What is discrimination?
100
The amendment which protects the right to bear arms.
What is Amendment II?
200
A formal request (often in the form of a document signed by many people).
What is a petition?
200
A sum of money used as a security deposit to ensure that an accused person returns for his or her trial.
What is bail?
200
Following legal procedures.
What is due process?
200
The social separation of the races.
What is segregation?
200
The Amendment that says that nobody can enter your house without your permission unless they have a search warrant.
What is Amendment IV?
300
Spreading spoken lies.
What is slander?
300
The right to vote.
What is suffrage?
300
A group of citizens who review the evidence against the accused.
What is a grand jury?
300
Being singled out as a suspect because of the way someone looks.
What is racial profiling?
300
The amendment which protects citizens from unfair punishments.
What is the Eighth Amendment?
400
When lies are printed.
What is libel?
400
A sum of moneys voters were expected to pay before casting a ballot.
What are poll taxes?
400
A formal charge by a grand jury.
What is an indictment?
400
The rights of full citizenship and equality under the law.
What are civil rights?
400
The Amendment which protects the states and the people from an all powerful federal government.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
500
The freedoms we have to think and act without government interference or fear of unfair treatment.
What are civil liberties?
500
An explanation or translation. Something that judges do (as police officers enforce laws).
What is interpretation?
500
The right of the government to take private property- usually land - for public use.
What is eminent domain?
500
Programs intended to make up for past discrimination by helping minority groups and women gain access to jobs and opportunities.
What is affirmative action?
500
The Amendment that prevents the government from claiming that the only rights people have are those listed in the constitution.
What is the Ninth Amendment?
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