General
How many total amendments are there in the Bill of Rights?
What would be a total of ten amendments.
Explain the fourth amendment.
What is the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures.
SCENARIO: When being interrogated by police, a person refuses to answer certain questions and chooses to remain silent.
What is the fifth amendment.
What are the ninth and tenth amendments called?
What is the non-rights amendments.
Before entering a suspect’s home, a police officer shows a search warrant.
What is the fourth amendment.
What is another name for the ten amendments that were passed by congress on September 25th, 1789?
What is also known as the Bill of Rights.
Name the five parts of the first amendment.
What is the freedom of speech, petition, assembly, press, and religion.
What does the sixth amendment state?
What is the right to a speedy trial.
Which amendment does not let or prohibits the power of the Federal Government?
What is the tenth amendment.
A registered voter receives a summons to report for jury duty.
What is the seventh amendment.
How long ago were the Bill of Rights ratified or passed?
What is over 200 years ago.
What does the third amendment mean by 'quartering'?
What would mean that the government can not force citizens to HOUSE or SHELTER soldiers.
What does the eighth amendment prohibit in the United States?
What prohibits cruel and unusual punishment.
Which amendment states that 'Americans are entitled to enjoy additional rights and freedoms not included in the ten amendments.'
What is the ninth amendment.
During election season, a local newspaper publishes an editorial endorsing one candidate over another.
What is the first amendment that practices the freedom of press.
What year was the Bill of Rights approved?
What is the year of 1789.
Which amendments states 'the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.'
What is the second amendment.
The seventh amendment states that you have the right to a jury trial where IMPARTIAL peers decide innocence or guilt in the courtroom. How many impartial peers are there on a jury?
What is 12 impartial peers on a jury trial.
What does the ninth amendment state?
What is the rights not listed in the Bill of Rights and are held by the people of the United States.
Name a scenario using the tenth amendment.
What is an example of separation of powers between federal and state governments.
Ex. Congress passes a law mandating all states to adopt a specific curriculum for public schools.
What document includes the Bill of Rights?
Name a scenario using any of the first four amendments.
What is an example of the freedom of speech, press, assembly, religion, or petition; example of the right to bear arms; the right to not quarter; the right of searches and seizures.
Ex. A group of people assemble on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., to demand the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan.
Which amendment states that 'no person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury; nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law'?
What is the fifth amendment.
What does the tenth amendment state?
What is that powers not granted to the Federal government belong to the states and the people. In other words, there is separation of powers between state and federal (national).
Who is the important historical figure that sought out and wrote the Bill of Rights?
Who is James Madison.