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
Issued by a court or judge, this Allows the police to legally arrest, search or seize
What is a warrant
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
What is cruel and unusual punishment, excessive fines, or excessive bail.
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.
What amendment allows you to say, "No searches. Come back with a warrant!" to a Police Officer?
4th Amendment
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 kept by the people
This allows people to ask the government to correct the ideas they do not agree with
What is freedom of petition
If a defendant cannot afford one of these, one will be provided for them by the Gov (6th Amendment)
What is a lawyer
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? (1st Amendment)
assemble
Someone in Alaska is found guilty of murder. They are sentences to death by being fed to Polar Bears.
What amendment does this violate?
8th amendment
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
A police officer pulls you over for speeding and smells Marijuana in the car. The cop sees that you are under 21, and decides he will search the car. Why AREN'T you protected by the fourth amendment?
probable cause