Amendments
The original 10 amendments to the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
Official changes or additions to the U.S. Constitution.
What is an amendment?
What is an attorney, judge, paralegal, legal consultant, legislator, lobbyist, forensic analyst, policy analyst, police officer, FBI agent, public defender, or law clerk?
The Supreme Court case that banned segregation in public schools.
What is Brown v. Board of Education?
Legislative, executive, judicial.
What are the three branches of government?
This amendment grants the right to remain silent.
What is the 5th Amendment?
The number of amendments currently.
What is 27?
Name a role in court and what they do.
What is a judge, a jury member, a witness, a lawyer, a bailiff, a reporter, a courtroom artist/journalist, a clerk, or a stenographer?
The case that ruled that African Americans were not citizens and therefore could not sue for their freedom, contributing to the start of the Civil War.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
What is the judicial branch?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
The two-step process of creating amendments.
What is proposal and ratification?
Name a civil crime.
What is medical malpractice, personal injury, property disputes, divorce, destruction of personal property, etc.?
The most relevant amendment in the Roe v. Wade case.
What is 4th Amendment, the right to privacy?
The main figurehead of the executive branch.
Who is the president?
What is the amendment that gave women the right to vote?
The amount of state legislatures needed to ratify an amendment.
The name of the government's side in a criminal trial (the defense versus the...).
What is the prosecution?
Describe the case of Tinker v. Des Moines.
Students wore black armbands to school to protest the Vietnam War and were suspended. The Supreme Court ruled that students do not lose their 1st Amendment rights when they enter school.
What is the House of Representatives and the Senate?
The rights protected under the 1st Amendment (name all 5!).
What is freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of press, freedom of assembly, or freedom of petition?
An amendment can be proposed by a 2/3 vote of...?
Both houses of Congress.
The test you take so you can represent others in court.
What is the bar exam?
The outcome of the Gideon v. Wainwright case, and what amendments were used to come to that ruling.
Clarence Earl Gideon won the case (6th Amendment - right to counsel, 14th Amendment - Due Process). The government must provide legal representation for those who can't afford it.
Name a check/balance from one of the branches of government.
Legislative: impeaches judges or president
Executive: presidential veto on laws, nominates judges on Supreme Court
Judicial: declares laws unconstitutional, declares presidential acts unconstitutional