Bill of Rights
How many amendments are in the Bill of Rights, as ratified in 1791.
What is 10?
A group of random citizens who decide on the guilt or innocence of someone on trial?
What is a jury?
Right protected by the 2nd amendment.
What is to own a gun/keep and bare arms?
The agreement to allow slave states to boost their representation in Congress.
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
Who is Thomas Jefferson.
I attend a regular public high school in small town America. Prior to my biology test on evolution and the origin of man, my teacher asks us to bow our heads in prayer? This act violates this part of the First Amendment's protect of Freedom of Religion.
What is Establishment Clause?
This amendment concerns the rights of the accused individuals on trial. If the accused cannot afford a lawyer a public defender is provided, a right provided by the ______ Amendment.
What is the 6th Amendment?
This document is the highest law of the land.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
Agreement that merged the proportional representation of the Virginia Plan with the equal representation of the New Jersey Plan.
What is the Great Compromise?
Printer, inventor, and support of American Independence.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This Amendment is an OLD and obsolete amendment, dating as far back as the Boston Massacre, which says that the government cannot place soldiers in your home.
What is the Quartering Act or Third Amendment?
A man is arrested and not put on trial for so many years. What part of the 6th amendment has been violated?
What is the right to a Fair and Speedy Trial
What amendment protects me from a police officer searching my vehicle without probable cause?
What is the 4th Amendment
Agreement to delay the prohibition on the importation of enslaved people until 20 years after ratification of the Constitution.
What is the Slave-Trade Compromise?
A police officer enters your home .He has no warrant or probable cause to believe a crime has been committed. What amendment is violated
What is the 4th Amendment?
Rights that are not written in the Constitution are reserved to be determined by the individual states. This is protected under which Amendment?
What is the Tenth Amendment?
First Amendment right is really about your right to think for yourself and draw your own conclusions.
What is Freedom of Religion?
I am an unemployed prisoner and a judge has just set my bail at $50 million dollars. My lawyer argues that my bail is set too high and he wins. What amendment does he use to support his claim?
What is Amendment number 8
Agreement to give Congress the power to regulate interstate and international trade.
What is Commerce Clause Compromise?
Leader of armed resistance to the "intolerable acts" in Massachusetts.
Who was John Adams?
I am a journalist from the Hillsborough 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.
This amendment protects a person accused of a crime from being a witness against his or herself.
What is the 5th Amendment
I am a soldier in the US Navy and I am being accused of murdering my bunkmate. I am summoned to military court in order to answer for my crimes. This is because of _________ Amendment.
What is the 5th Amendment
Agreement that allowed for the indirect election of the president.
What is the Electoral College Compromise?
Political theorist that suggested people create government to protect their natural rights.
Who is John Locke?
These 5 rights are guaranteed under the First Amendment.
What are religion, speech, press, assembly, petition?
4th Amendment protects you from the governments desire to search your property, papers, or effects. What must the Government have in order to conduct searches and seizures?
What is a warrant.
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, painful deaths (i.e. an electric chair), unsafe conditions in prison.
What is Cruel and Unusual punishment.
True or False: The addition of the Bill of Rights was a concession to the Anti-Federalist in order to gain their support for the Consitution?
What is TRUE?
Author of the Common Sense.
Who is Thomas Paine?