Bill of Rights
This amendment guards citizens from giving up their bed to soldiers!
What is the 3rd amendment?
This covers private disputes between people over property or relationships and often fined or otherwise punished but not usually imprisoned.
What is Civil Law?
This term means punishment by death
What is Capital Punishment?
This is the year the Pilgrims came to America on this ship
When was 1620 and what was The Mayflower?
The 3rd & 4th amendment help protect rights to be secure in both home and person. What must someone have in order to enter your home? This gives _________legal authority to search your property.
What is a search warrant? Who are the police?
This amendment gives you the freedom for these 5 things
What is freedom of speech, press, religion, assembly and petition?
This is the system for dealing with crimes and their punishments and may be fined, imprisoned, or even executed.
What Criminal Law?
This word means spoken defamatory statement...while this word means a written (in print) defamation
What is slander and libel?
This is why the Pilgrims decided to leave England and what happened to them when they first left
What is trying to escape tyranny, freedom to worship as they chose, and put in jail?
This is why our government was formed
What is to ensure national security (protect the people from invading armies) provide law and order, pass and enforce laws and to provide services? What is to provide for the public good?
Which amendment has to do with the ability to protect yourself and says what you may own in order to do so?
What is the 2nd amendment which gives you the right to bear arms?
You can sue someone for this - Communication that injures a third party's reputation and causes a legally redressable injury. It is not necessarily restricted to making assertions that are falsifiable, and can extend to concepts that are more abstract than reputation – like dignity and honour.
What is defamation?
A formal complaint of criminal wrongdoing. If the grand jury can indict a person if they believe there is enough evidence to charge a person with a crime. This is a form of security put up for a person who is released from jail awaiting trial.
What is an Indictment?What is bail money?
Describe the trip across the ocean, conditions in Plymouth once they arrived, what they did when people died, and how many survived the first winter
What is living in cramped conditions seasick, what is arriving late in freezing weather, what is bury people in mass graves so Indians wouldn't know how few were left to defend themselves, and what is half?
This is what separation of church and state does
What is telling the state what it cannot do and keeps the government out of the affairs of religion?
These two have to do with crimes, trials, juries. Tell us something about these amendments and what they do.
What are the 6th and 7th amendment?
Lawsuits are part of which branch of government? The basic freedoms to think and act as one chooses are guarded by the ___________system. This system seeks fair and impartial outcomes for disputes of many kinds. It follows rules and guidelines established by the _____________.
This is the crime of making war against the United States or giving “aid and comfort” to its enemies.
This legal term is for speech or actions that inspire revolt against the government.
What is treason? What is sedition?
This monument is _________tall, made of this material______________and stands in this state. The name of this monument is ______________________.What other statues is much more well known?
What is 81 feet tall? What is made of granite? Where is Massachusetts? What is The National Monument to our Forefathers? What is the Statue of Liberty?
A Supreme Court case that had to do with Campaign finance laws. It established the basic rules that govern how modern presidential campaigns are financed.
What was Buckley vs. Valeo?
This amendment has to do with arrests. These other one has to do with those accused of a crime. These are the words in the Miranda warning.
What is the 4th amendment? What is the 5th amendment?
"You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have a right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed for you.”
A case in civil law is called a _____________. This is where the ________ (who is the one suing) brings a ______against this person (the accused). This person may be found guilty based on _________.
What is a lawsuit? Who is the plaintiff? Who is the defendant? What is evidence?
This is a legal order requiring that an imprisoned person be brought before a court so a judge can determine whether the imprisonment is legal.
What is Habeus Corpus?
The monument we've been learning about has five statues. Name each one and what they stand for and why each one is important
Who are Faith, Liberty, Law, Education and Morality?
This is how many times the Constitution has been amended. This is why it has been amended and this is what being amended means.
What is 27 times. What is to meet the nation's needs, reflect the changing times, and address concerns or elements they had not anticipated.
What does make minor changes in order to make it fairer, more accurate, or more up-to-date?