1st & 6th Amendments
This amendment protects your right to criticize the government without fear of punishment.
What is the First Amendment?
The Seventh Amendment applies to cases where damages exceed this amount.
What is $20?
The Eighth Amendment protects against punishments that are this.
What is cruel and unusual?
This amendment protects rights not explicitly listed in the Constitution.
What is the Ninth Amendment?
This amendment reserves powers not given to the federal government for these entities.
What are the states?
The 13th Amendment allows involuntary servitude as a punishment for this.
What is a crime?
This constitutional principle ensures that no branch of government becomes too powerful by allowing each branch to limit the powers of the others.
What is checks and balances?
Mr. Colbert's kitten has this name.
What is George?
The Sixth Amendment guarantees a trial that is both public and this.
What is speedy?
This amendment ensures the right to a trial by this in civil cases.
What is a jury?
The Third Amendment prohibits the forced quartering of soldiers during this time.
What is peacetime?
This amendment requires law enforcement to obtain one of these before searching a person’s home.
What is a warrant?
The phrase "I plead the Fifth" refers to this right.
What is the right to remain silent?
The 14th Amendment guarantees that all citizens receive this under the law.
What is equal protection?
The lyrics of "The Star-Spangled Banner" were inspired by a battle during this war.
What is the War of 1812?
The drink from Dunkin Donuts that Mr. Colbert orders the most.
What is a berry burst (Dunkin Energy)?
The accused have the right to confront and question these individuals.
What are witnesses?
The Second Amendment mentions a "well-regulated" version of this group.
What is a militia?
This amendment also prevents courts from setting bail that is this.
What is excessive?
The Fourth Amendment protects against searches and seizures that are this.
What is unreasonable?
The Fifth Amendment prevents a person from being tried for the same crime twice, known as this.
What is double jeopardy?
The 15th Amendment states that voting rights cannot be denied based on these three factors.
What are race, color, or previous condition of servitude?
A candidate needs at least this number of electoral votes to win the U.S. presidency.
What is 270?
This college in Massachusetts is where Mr. Colbert graduated from.
What is Endicott College?
The First Amendment allows journalists to publish stories critical of the government without fear of this.
What is censorship?
The Second Amendment was influenced by the Founders' fear of this group becoming too powerful.
What is the government (or a standing army)?
This British law required colonists to house soldiers, inspiring the Third Amendment.
What is the Quartering Act?
The Fourth Amendment has been debated in cases involving searches of this modern device.
What is a cell phone?
The Tenth Amendment was often cited in debates over this major issue before the Civil War.
What is states' rights?
The 14th Amendment extended this legal principle, preventing states from denying life, liberty, or property without it.
What is due process?
This landmark Supreme Court case established the principle of judicial review.
What is Marbury v. Madison?
Mr. Colbert competitively competed in this sport for 7 years.
What is skiing?
The "Establishment Clause" and "Free Exercise Clause" deal with this fundamental freedom.
What is the freedom of religion?
This 2008 case ruled that the Second Amendment protects an individual's right to own guns.
What is District of Columbia v. Heller?
The Eighth Amendment has been used to challenge poor conditions in these facilities.
What are prisons?
The Ninth Amendment is often paired with this other amendment in cases about personal freedom.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
The government must provide this if it takes private property for public use.
What is just compensation?
The 13th Amendment was ratified in this year, marking the official end of slavery.
What is 1865?
This is the only state that has a unicameral (one-house) legislature instead of a bicameral system.
What is Nebraska?
Mr. Colbert's first time out of the United States was when he was 16 years old and visited this country.
What is China?