Constitutional Amendments
This amendment states that accused people can remain out of jail until their trial if they pay bail
What is Amendment 8
This amendment states that people who have a disagreement over more than $20 can have a trial by jury
What is Amendment 7
This role allows the President to veto or enact laws.
What is Chief Legislator.
The ability to declare war falls to whom?
What is Congress?
A woman is being tried for murder. The prosecuting attorney forces her to take the stand and testify.
Yes Amendment 5.
This Amendment states that you do not have to testify against yourself.
What is Amendment 5
This amendment establishes the Electoral College.
What is Amendment 12
Once a year the president must give Congress this
What is the State of the Union?
This allows Congress to pass any law that helps them carry out their duties.
What is the Elastic Clause?
A 20 year old college student starts his own newspaper, which often prints articles making fun of the local mayor. The mayor is angry and gets his aides to take the papers off the stand before they can be distributed.
Yes 1st Amendment.
This amendment states that you must be paid a fair price when the government needs your property.
What is Amendment 5
This amendment states "can not search a person's property without a warrant"
What is Amendment 4
This is the role that allows the President to negotiate treaties.
What is Chief Diplomat.
If a law punished people today for something that was legal last year, it would be called this type of law.
What is an ex post facto law?
A young woman is being tried for treason. She is accused of selling plans for building a nuclear weapon to Iran. The judge believes it would be dangerous to let the public hear her ideas. He refuses to allow anyone to view the trial. Violation No violation Amendment.
Yes it violates her 6th Amendment rights?
This amendment states that people have rights outside of those stated in the Constitution
What is Amendment 9
This amendment states that any powers not stated in the Constitution belong to state
What is Amendment 10
This is what it means to be Chief of Party.
What is the head of a political party?
Congress can override a presidential veto by this percentage of both houses voting yes.
What is 2/3?
A town needs more land to build a new elementary school. A womanʹs property is needed but she wants to keep it. The town forces her to sell and gives her twice the propertyʹs actual value. She sues to get her land back.
No! It does not violate the 5th Amendment due to just compensation.
This Amendment states that you have the right to questions witnesses on your behalf.
What is Amendment 6
This amendment states "people have the right to a fair, public, and speedy trial"
What is Amendment 6
This is the symbolic leader of our country.
What is Head of State?
The legislature does not have the power to make laws that punish one individual group known as these.
What are bills of attainder?
A dentist is being sued for $500,000. He wants a jury to hear the case but the judge refuses his request.
Yes 7th Amendment