Amendments 1-3
This amendment grants the right to bear arms.
What is the Second Amendment?
This amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
This term describes trying someone twice for the same crime.
What is double jeopardy?
This freedom protects individuals from government-imposed religion.
What is freedom of religion?
This amendment protects rights not listed in the Constitution.
What is the Ninth Amendment?
This amendment prevents the government from forcing citizens to house soldiers.
What is the Third Amendment?
This amendment ensures the right to a speedy and public trial by an impartial jury.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
This is the term for giving testimony that could be used against oneself.
What is self-incrimination?
This freedom allowed John Peter Zenger to criticize the New York governor without punishment.
What is freedom of the press?
This amendment ensures states retain powers not delegated to the federal government.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
This amendment protects freedom of speech, the press, religion, assembly, and petition.
What is the First Amendment?
This amendment prohibits excessive bail or cruel and unusual punishment.
What is the Eighth Amendment?
This legal order allows police to search property or make an arrest.
What is a warrant?
This freedom lets citizens hold peaceful protests or rallies.
What is the right to assembly?
This amendment allows for jury trials in civil cases.
What is the Seventh Amendment?
This amendment prevents Congress from establishing a national religion.
What is the First Amendment?
This amendment ensures that private property cannot be taken for public use without fair compensation.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
This term refers to rights read to suspects by police to avoid self-incrimination during arrest.
What are Miranda Rights?
This freedom allows individuals to request changes or express grievances to the government.
What is the right to petition?
This amendment ensures that powers not given to the federal government are reserved for the states or the people.
What is the Tenth Amendment?
This amendment is often associated with militias and firearm ownership.
What is the Second Amendment?
This amendment grants the right to trial by jury in civil cases exceeding a certain monetary value.
What is the Seventh Amendment?
This term describes the process by which a grand jury decides if there is enough evidence to charge someone with a crime.
What is an indictment?
This First Amendment freedom ensures open communication and criticism of the government.
What is freedom of the press?
This amendment acknowledges that citizens have rights beyond those explicitly stated in the Constitution.
What is the Ninth Amendment?