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A woman is arrested but cannot afford a lawyer to represent her in court. The court is required to provide her with an attorney under this amendment.
What is the sixth amendment?
A high school student wears a t-shirt with a political slogan that his principal finds offensive and asks him to remove. This amendment and which freedom protects the student's right.
What is Freedom of Speech of the First Amendment?
Police officers want to search a person's home for illegal items but do not have a judge's order or the owner's permission. This amendment protects the resident from this action.
What is the fourth amendment?
I am a journalist from the Goetz Tribune and I show up at the Mayor's Office for a potential story, I am expressing my freedom of _____, found in the _____ Amendment.
What is the Freedom of the Press, found in what is the 1st Amendment.
A person is arrested for shoplifting a inexpensive item. A judge sets bail at $1 million, an unusually high amount. This amendment protects against this excessive bail.
What is the Eighth Amendment?
A high-profile murder trial has taken over the news, and the court proceedings are open to the public and the media to ensure government transparency. This practice fulfills the Sixth Amendment requirement for this type of trial.
What is a public trial?
A resident in a city is unhappy with a new local zoning law and starts a document circulating online to gather signatures asking the city council to change the law.This amendment and right allows for this to happen.
What is the First Amendment Right to Petition the Government?
Students generally have a reduced expectation of privacy in these storage areas provided by the school because they are considered school property, not private property.
What are lockers or desks?
How many amendments are in the Bill of Rights?
What is 10?
This amendment protects a person accused of a crime from being a witness against his or herself.
What is the 5th Amendment
A man is found "not guilty" of armed robbery. The local district attorney cannot decide to charge him and retry him for the exact same crime next month because of this Fifth Amendment protection.
What is the protection against double jeopardy?
An individual of the Islamic faith wears a Turban as a religious practice. No government official can force him to remove it because of this amendment and freedom.
What is Freedom of Religion of the First Amendment?
A police officer pulls a car over for speeding. To search the trunk, the officer usually needs this specific document or the driver's consent.
What is a warrant?
These rights are guaranteed under the First Amendment.
What are speech, assembly, petition, press, religion?
A state court judge decides that a suitable punishment for a convicted thief is to cut off one of their hands. This form of physical punishment is banned by this part of the 8th amendment.
What is cruel and unusual punishment?
A suspect has been held in jail for over three years awaiting trial, with many delays attributed to court logistics.This part of the sixth amendment allows protection from this to happen.
What is the right to a speedy trial?
A group of citizens gathers in a public park with signs to protest a new state law. The police try to disperse them solely because they dislike the message. This amendment and freedom protects their right to gather peacefully.
What is the Freedom of Assembly of the First Amendment ?
A police officer asks a driver during a traffic stop, "You don't mind if I have a look in your car, do you?" The driver says "No, go ahead." The officer can search the car without a warrant because of this.
What is consent or permission?
A group of random citizens who decide on the guilt or innocence of someone on trial.
What is a jury?
A homeowner's property is needed by the county to build a new public high school. The county can take the land but must pay the owner a fair price due to this amendment's "just compensation" clause.
What is the 5th amendment?
A person is detained by police for questioning about a recent crime. The police must read them these rights, including the right to remain silent, based on this part of the fifth amendment.
What are the Miranda Rights
A local newspaper publishes a controversial article critical of the town's police department, and the mayor tries to shut down the publication. The newspaper is protected by the specific parts of this amendment. (Give the# of the amendment and the two parts)
What is the Freedom of the Press & Speech of the 1st Amendment?
The 8th amendment stops the government from torturing people found guilty of a crime. What is the more common phrase used to describe acts like torture and unsafe conditions in prison.
What is Cruel and Unusual punishment.
As soon as what I say threatens or impedes on the rights of another, I am no longer protected under this freedom, _____________. What amendment am I?
What is the Freedom of Speech. The 1st Amendment
The federal government requires all states to raise their drinking age to 21 or risk losing highway funding. States follow the rule under duress, illustrating the tension between federal mandates and the reserved powers in this amendment.
What is the 10th amendment?