Bill of Rights
How many amendments are in the Bill of Rights, as ratified in 1791.
What is 10?
A group of citizens who decide on a court case.
What is a jury?
This amendments gives citizens the right to bare arms.
What is the second amendment?
Guarantees a right to a jury trial in civil cases (involving amounts more than $20.00).
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 rights guaranteed under the First Amendment?
What are 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 news and express opinions.
What is freedom of the press?
This allows people to gather in groups.
What is freedom of assembly?
The Bill of Rights are the first ten amendments to the Constitution written to secure these.
What are basic rights/liberties/freedoms?
Gives you the right to know of charges against you, face your accusers, and also to have "counsel", i.e., an attorney.
What is the 6th Amendment?
The 10th Amendment deals with the relationship between what two things?
What are the States and 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/public defender?
The Bill of Rights was inspired by the mistreatment by this country.
What is Enlgand?
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 of life, liberty or property without "due process of law".)
What is the 5th Amendment?
The difference between Civil and Criminal case.
What is a civil trial is when someone sues someone else? A criminal trial is when the state tries to convict someone of a crime. (Money vs. Jail)
You cannot be put on trial twice for the same crime. The fifth amendment protects you from _______ _______.
What is double jeopardy?
Mr. Roberts went hunting with a gun owners license, but the police tried to take his gun away. This violates what?
What is the 2nd Amendment?
If the federal government makes laws taking away powers of the states, this is a violation of which amendment?
What is he 10th amendment?
A man is arrested and is told that he has the right to remain silent but not that he can have a lawyer. What amendment is being violated?
The 6th amendment.
This amendment allows citizens to have rights that are not in the constitution including marriage and education.
What is the 9th amendment?
A man is thrown in jail for punching a coworker. He is given a million dollar bail. What amendment does this violate?
What is the 8th amendment?
A police officer pulls you over for speeding.He has no warrant or probable cause. What amendment protects you from this?
What is the fourth amendment?