CATEGORY 1: First Amendment Freedoms
This First Amendment freedom protects your right to share your opinions out loud or in writing.
What is speech?
This amendment protects the right to bear arms.
What is the 2nd Amendment?
This amendment was influenced by British laws forcing colonists to house soldiers.
What is the 3rd Amendment?
This amendment protects individual freedoms related to expression.
What is the 1st Amendment?
There are limits or restricitions to what the government can and cannot do.
what is limited government?
This freedom allows people to peacefully protest or gather together.
What is assembly?
This amendment ended slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This amendment was passed to officially end an immoral practice of servitude that existed since the nation's founding.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This amendment focuses on personal protection from government intrusion into the home... meaning soldiers cannot stay within your home during a time of peace.
What is the 3rd Amendment?
The government and its' officers are subject to the law and not above the law.
This First Amendment freedom protects newspapers, news outlets, and journalists.
What is press?
This amendment prevents soldiers from being housed in private homes during peacetime.
What is the 3rd Amendment?
This amendment reflects concerns from the Revolutionary War era about local defense... think of the militia.
What is the 2nd Amendment?
The people are sovereign and have all of the political power?
what is popular sovereignty?
What date was the Constitution written?
what is September 17th, 1787?
This freedom allows people to ask the government to fix a problem or change a law.
What is petition?
This amendment states that not all rights are listed in the Constitution.
What is the 9th Amendment?
This amendment was created to address the rights of formerly enslaved people after the Civil War. Defines what a citizen is and also made Bill of Rights applicable to all states.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Power is divided among the national government and regional governments.
This First Amendment freedom protects both practicing a religion and choosing not to.
What is religion?
This amendment defines citizenship and guarantees equal protection under the law
What is the 14th Amendment?
This amendment exists because the framers believed they could not list every possible right.
What is the 9th Amendment?
what is checks and balances?
who is James Madison?