Bill of Rights
What do we call the first 10 amendments?
The Bill of Rights
What do we call a group of citizens who decide on a court case?
a jury
This amendments gives citizens the right to bear arms, the right to own a gun
What is the second amendment
Guarantees a right to a jury trial in civil cases
What is the 7th Amendment
List the 5 freedoms guaranteed under the First Amendment?
What is speech, assembly, petition, press, religion?
Protects you from an unreasonable search or seizure of your person, house, papers and effects.
What is the 4th Amendment
This amendment outlaws cruel and unusual punishments
What is the Eighth Amendment
This allows newspapers and other agencies to report or print news and express opinions
What is freedom of the press
What is freedom of assembly?
This allows people to gather in groups.
You are really upset about the school lunch and want to do something about it. You call a meeting of all your friends in the school library without Mrs. Williams permission. Which right are you exercising? Are you breaking the law?
1st Amendment right to assemble. However, you are on private property and that is illegal.
You are told you must wait 3 years for a trial by a jury.
This violates what amendment?
What is the 6th Amendment
What does the ninth Amendment say about rights not listed in the Constitution?
Other rights and liberties not listed in the Constitution are still OUR rights
This allows people to ask the government to correct the ideas they do not agree with
What is freedom of petition
Which Amendment freed the slaves in 1865?
The 13th Amendment
You are driving with your friends in your car and are stopped by the police. What amendment protects you from an unreasonable search?
The fourth amendment
The Constitutional Amendment that gives you "the right to remain silent." (It also says you can't be tried twice for the same crime or be deprived (not given) of life, liberty or property without "due process of law".)
What is the 5th Amendment
The people may peaceably do what under the 1st Amendment?
assemble
Is the right to not incriminate yourself the same as your Miranda Rights?
No- one is 5th amendment.
Miranda Rights are the rights that are read to you when you are arrested. They cover more than your right to not incriminate yourself.
A neighbor went hunting with a gun owner's license, but the police tried to take her gun away. What amendment protects her right to a gun?
What is Amendment 2
What are laws called that all 50 states must follow?
federal laws
What is the Constitutional Amendment that prevents citizens from being forced to quarter soldiers?
What is the 3rd Amendment?
What is double jeopardy?
When proven innocent, you cannot be tried twice for the same crime.
What does due process mean?
people get a trail by jury
a lawyer is provided
Which are voting Amendments?- gave former slaves the right to vote
-gave women the right to vote
-lowered the voting age to 18
- got rid of poll taxes
15th Amendment
19th Amendment,
26th Amendment,
24th Amendment