Which Amendment?
This amendment means you have the right to bear weapons
The second amendment
What does the second amendment mean?
Citizens can bear guns and weapons
This is what all 10 Amendments together are called.
The Bills of Rights
10
Number of Amendments
The Bill of Rights is the first ten amendments of ____
The constitution
the amendment means that you can not have cruel or unusual punishment
the 8th amendment
What is the fifth amendment?
You do not have to say something before or during your trial that will make you look guilty.
These 3 freedoms are mentioned in the first amendment.
Freedom of speech, freedom of peaceful protesting, freedom of press.
This man wrote the 10 amendments
James Madison is known as....
The father of the constitution
the amendment means that you can't have soldiers living in your home
the 3rd amendment
What does the third amendment mean?
Citizens do not have to house soldiers
Someone in court says this when they don't want to share information.
"I plead the 5th"
27
number of amendments in the constitution
How many amendments were there ORIGINALLY?
12
the amendment means you have the right to have a jury present at your trial
the 7th amendment
What is the 9th amendment?
People get rights that are not listed in the constitution
Which amendment gives the rights to privacy?
The 4th amendment
3 years
how long the Bill of Rights took
When the bill of rights is celebrated
December 15
the amendment means freedom of peaceful protesting
the 1st
What is the 6th amendment?
To have a speedy trial; criminals do not have to wait months or years for their trial to begin.
The president when the ten amendments were ratified
George Washington
When the bill of rights was ratified
1791
The structure and content of the Bill Of Rights was inspired and based off of...
The Virginia Declaration of Rights