1st Amendment
This First Amendment clause protects the right to join groups and protest peacefully.
What is freedom of assembly?
This Supreme Court case held that the Second Amendment protects an individual right to own a firearm for self-defense.
What is District of Columbia v. Heller?
The Fourth Amendment is primarily concerned with protecting individuals from what type of government action?
What are unreasonable searches and seizures?
This Fifth Amendment protection prevents the government from forcing someone to help prove their own guilt.
What is protection against self-incrimination?
The Bill of Rights was added to the Constitution primarily to address fears about what kind of government?
What is a strong central government?
The two clauses in the first amendment that deal with religion.
What is the free exercise clause and the establishment clause?
The two primary interpretations of the second Amendment.
What is protection of individual right or protection of collective right?
This legal standard requires facts that would lead a reasonable person to believe a crime has occurred
What is probable cause?
This constitutional principle requires the government to follow fair procedures before taking away rights.
What is due process?
The Bill of Rights was ratified as a compromise to help secure support for this document.
What is the Constitution?
This Supreme Court case established that students do not “shed their constitutional rights at the schoolhouse gate.”
What is Tinker v. Des Moines?
This is the significance of McDonald v. Chicago (2010)
What is selectively incorporated the second amendment to the states?
When executing a search warrant, police may only search places where the listed items could reasonably be found; this is known as the _______ of the warrant.
What is the scope?
The Sixth Amendment guarantees the right to legal representation in criminal trials, even if the defendant cannot afford it.
What is the right to an attorney?
The Bill of Rights was strongly demanded by this group during the ratification debate.
Who are the Anti-Federalists?
This Supreme Court case limited prior restraint and allowed publication of classified documents during the Vietnam War.
What is New York Times Co. v. United States?
The ongoing debate over how far states may regulate firearms reflects tension between individual rights and this constitutional principle.
What is federalism?
This doctrine allows police to seize illegal items not listed in a warrant if they are lawfully present and the item’s illegality is immediately obvious.
What is the Plain View Doctrine?
This Sixth Amendment right ensures that trials are not unnecessarily delayed by the government.
What is the right to a speedy trial?
Many protections in the Bill of Rights were influenced by earlier English documents such as this one.
What is the English Bill of Rights (1689)?
Under the First Amendment, the government may regulate speech based on time, place, and manner, but only if the regulations are _______.
What are content-neutral?
Laws restricting firearms in schools and government buildings are often justified because these places are considered _______.
What are sensitive places?
The key question courts ask when determining Fourth Amendment protection is whether a person has a _______ _______ of privacy.
What is a reasonable expectation?
This Fifth Amendment clause limits the government’s power to take private property unless it pays fairly.
What is the Takings Clause?
Originally, the Bill of Rights applied only to the federal government; it was later applied to the states through this amendment.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?