Bill of Rights fun facts
This many amendments were ratified in 1791, forming the bill of rights.
What is 10?
This is a group of citizens who decide on a court case, as stated in the seventh amendment.
What is a jury?
The first amendment protects this many freedoms.
The second amendment protects the rights of citizens to own these.
What are guns?
All those accused have a right to one of these.
What is a lawyer/attorney?
This many amendments were proposed to Congress in 1789, as a bill of rights.
This many amendments protect the rights of the accused and convicted.
What is 5?
4th-8th
This freedom allows citizens to express ideas without fear of government retaliation.
What is the freedom of speech?
This amendment protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures.
This political party wanted to have a bill of rights, as opposed to the federalists, who thought it was unnecessary.
Who were the antifederalists?
He is considered the author of the bill of rights.
What is property?
This freedom allows for citizens to gather peacefully and support a cause.
What is the freedom of assembly?
This amendment states that all powers not given to the federal government are delegated to the states.
What is the 10th amendment?
This was the only right explicitly listed in the original constitution, at the special request of Alexander Hamilton, and therefore is not included in the Bill of Rights.
This amendment, protecting against the quartering of soldiers, is often considered the least challenged.
According to the seventh amendment, trial by jury shall be preserved for all disputes over this amount.
What is $20?
Of all of the first amendment freedoms, this one is mentioned first.
Freedom of religion.
The third amendment protects citizens from having to house these people.
What are soldiers?
Although originally the second amendment, this amendment was not ratified until 1992, and states that Congressional salary changes do not go into effect until this happens.
What is the next congressional election?
What is the Magna Carta?
The eighth amendment protects citizens from this kind of punishments.
What is cruel and unusual?
This first amendment freedom allows people to ask the government to correct ideas that they disagree with.
What is the freedom of petition?
This amendment protects the enumerated rights of citizens.
What is the ninth amendment?
This president designated December 15th as Bill of Rights day, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the passing of the bill of rights.
Who is FDR?