Bill of Rights
Know Your Rights
Dec. of Indy
Scenarios
Pre-K
100
How many amendments are in the Bill of Rights, as ratified in 1791.
What is 10?
100
Three groups of people NOT represented in the original meeting to the Declaration of Independence.
What is Blacks, Women, Poor (minorities)?
100
Luke was found innocent of armed robbery, but the state decided to bring him to trial again anyway.
What is Double Jeopardy?
100
Total U.S. senators Total House Representatives
What is 100 & 435?
200
List the rights guaranteed under the First Amendment?
What is speech, assembly, petition, press, religion?
200
In civil cases of more than $20, you can request a jury trial
What is the 7th amendment?
200
According to the Declaration of Independence you have THREE basic human rights.
What is Life, Liberty, Pursuit of Happiness?
200
After being found guilty of driving while intoxicated, the court ordered that Carolyn spend the next 30 years in solitary confinement.
What is Cruel & Unusual punishment (8th amendment)?
200
Number of years Senators serve Number of years House Representatives serve
What is 6 & 2?
300
What is the Third Amendment about?
What is quartering soldiers in your home?
300
The 10th Amendment deals with the relationship between ...
What is rights reserved to the states? (Federal government & States)
300
The majority of the Declaration of Independence are complaints against who.
Who is King George III?
300
The citizens of Upper Creek voted to double the taxes of all Catholics.
What is Freedom of Religious practice (discrimination)? 1st amendment
300
Number of Supreme Court members. How long they serve.
What is 9 & Life?
400
Cruel and unusual forms of punishment.
What is the 8th amendment?
400
Protection against illegal search & seizure.
What is 4th amendment?
400
The first line in the Declaration of Independence are as followed... "We...
What is "hold these truths to be self evident"
400
The federal government decided state governments were no longer necessary
What is any power not granted to the federal government belongs to the states. (10th amendment)
400
The Electoral College Votes needed to win presidency?
What is 270?
500
Double jeopardy and self-incrimination are protected under which amendment.
What is 5th amendment?
500
The difference between Civil and Criminal case.
What is a civil trial is when someone sues someone else. A criminal trial is when the state tries to convict someone of a crime. (Money vs. Jail)
500
In the context of the Declaration of Independence, what these the phrase, "Unalienable Rights" mean.
What is rights that cannot be taken away or denied?
500
A US representative prohibited a local newspaper from printing an editorial that was critical of her voting record. For no apparent reason, the police stopped Rita while she was driving and began to search through the trunk and her personal luggage. The president declared that the only rights Americans have are those listed in the first eight amendments.
What is 1st amendment (press) 4th (search & seizure) 9th (rights reserved to the people)
500
To be elected to the following offices I must be: SENATE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES PRESIDENT SUPREME COURT
What is 30,25,35,NO AGE REQUIREMENT SET?