Bill of Rights 1
True or False: The Bill of Rights is the first 10 amendments to the Constitution.
What is True?
True or False: The 9th amendment says that we don't have the right if it is not clearly written out.
What is False?
(It actually says the exact opposite, saying that we have rights that are not explicitly listed in the Constitution)
True or False: Knowing the Bill of Rights only helps lawyers.
What is False?
(You can use the Bill of Rights to avoid scams are get out of difficult situations)
True or False: Civil Rights and Civil Liberties are the exact same thing.
What is False?
(Civil Rights are legally guaranteed protections that highlight equality and civil liberties are personal freedoms that protect citizens from the government taking complete control)
The person who initially proposed the Bill of Rights.
What is James Madison?
This amendment protects the freedoms of speech, religion, press, petition, and assembly.
What is the First Amendment?
This amendment protects you from cruel or unusual amendments.
What is the 8th amendment?
True or False: Knowing the Bill of Rights can help you find scams.
What is True?
(You can avoid having your rights taken by knowing them)
The amendment which gave women the right to vote.
What is the 19th amendment?
The Supreme Court case which decided that racial segregation in public schools was unconstitutional and ended up overturning the "separate but equal".
What is Brown vs. Board?
The place where powers not given to the federal government go and the amendment that decrees this.
What is the states and the 10th amendment?
The meaning of the right to bear arms.
What is the right to carry and use a gun?
True or False: The Bill of Rights can protect you from any crime you commit
What is False?
(There are some things we don't have the right to do, even under the 9th amendment(ex. stealing, kidnapping, murder))
The amendments which gave the right to vote regardless of race.
What is the 15th amendment?
(The 15th amendment strives to give former slaves some power and did so by giving everyone the right to vote, regardless of skin color.
The Bill of Rights had this many amendments before the states rejected them.
What is 12?
The 2 main amendments that protect your right to your own property.
What is the 3rd and the 4th amendment?
(The 3rd amendment stops the government from taking advantage of your property by stopping quartering and the 4th amendment makes sure that your property can't be taken or searched without good reason)
The 3 main amendments that deal with procedures during trials.
What are the 5th, 6th, and 7th amendments?
(The 5th amendment gives protection from self-incrimination, guarantees due process, and protection from double jeopardy. The 6th amendment guarantees a speedy trial. The 7th amendment a jury trial for civil cases)
A metaphor for the Bill of Rights.
What is a shield?
(The Bill of Rights acts as a shield for American citizens by protecting their rights)
The people who the 26th amendment gave the right to vote to.
What is people from the ages of 18-21?
(It reduced the voting age from 21 to 18 allowing these people to vote)
This ensures that all citizens are treated fairly.
What is the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th amendment?
The 3 things that the Bill of Rights strives to achieve.
What is guarantee freedom, limit the power of the government, and ensure that every individual feels protected?
The form of government that the Bill of Rights stops us from having.
What is a dictatorship?
(The Bill of Rights stops the government from doing anything to take our rights therefore stopping us from being a dictatorship)
The Bill of Rights can help you understand your own ____ and ____ yourself.
What is rights and protect?
The difference between civil rights and civil liberties.
What is civil rights are legally guaranteed protections that highlight equality and civil liberties are personal freedoms that protect citizens from the government taking complete control?
The inspiration of the iconic quote, "Equal Justice Under Law".
What is the wording of the Equal Protection Clause?