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Amendments
General Knowlege
Key People/Places
Misc.
100
the power of the government to take private property for public use.
What is emient domain?
100
protects the right to possess firearms
What is 2nd Amendment?
100
The way in which changes are made to the Constitution.
What is the amendment process?
100
place where amendments to the Constitution are proposed
What is congress or a national convention?
100
Required by the court before the police can come in your house to look for evidence.
What is a search warrant?
200
Being placed on trial twice for the same crime.
What is double jeopardy
200
prohibits excessive bail, fines, and cruel punishments
What is 8th amendment?
200
location of the amendments to the constitution.
What is after the articles or at the end of the document?
200
Place where amendments are ratified.
What is state legislatures or state conventions?
200
First ten amendments to the Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
300
Descriptions of situations or legal conflicts and the decisions made.
What is case studies?
300
protects people from unreasonable search and seizures.
What is 4th Amendment?
300
Warning the police must give to people taken into custody.
What is the Miranda Warning?
300
Famous American who pushed for the Bill or Rights to please the anti-federalist.
What is (Who is) James Madison?
300
When the government sends soldiers to live in your house (practice prohibited by the Third Amendment)
What is quartering the troops?
400
A process by which the government must treat accused persons fairly according to rules established by law.
What is due process of law?
400
Guarantees freedom of religion, speech and the press.
What is 1st Amendment?
400
When a suspect or accused person refuses to testify against themselves.
What is "pleading the fifth?"
400
Main person who is charged with preserving, protecting and defending the Constitution.
What is president of the US or President Obama?
400
Forms of damaging lies that are not protected by the Bill of Rights.
What is libel or slander?
500
the situation in which the government may not favor any religion or establish an official religion.
What is separation of church and state?
500
Declares that rights not mentioned in the Constitution belong to the people.
What is 9th Amendment?
500
Court of nine justices who interpret the meaning of citizen's rights according to the Constitution.
What is the US Supreme Court?
500
Place you would go for your 5th Amendment rights.
What is a court of law?
500
Common Colonial punishments that are considered "cruel and unusual punishment" by some people.
What is branding or whipping ?