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
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
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.
What are the 4 parts of the 5th Amendment?
1. Right to not self-incriminate
2. Right to your Miranda Rights
3. Right to a trial before you can go to jail
4. Right to Double Jeopardy (Can not be tried for the same crime twice)
You are told you must wait 3 years for a trial by a jury.
This violates what amendment?
What is the 6th Amendment
What amendment says that people have more rights than what is listed in the constitution
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 government
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?
What does Amendment 10 say?
The federal government only has the rights specifically given to them in the Constitution, anything else goes to the states
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 the 4 parts of the 6th Amendment
1. Right to a public and speedy trial
2. Right to a lawyer to defend you
3. Right to know your accuser and accusations against you
4. Right to a fair unbiased jury of your peers
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 amendment says you have the right to a lawyer?
Amendment 6
A police officer pulls you over for speeding and swerving all over the road. He tells you that he is going to search your car. Why aren't you protected by the fourth amendment
probable cause