U.S. Constitution
The year that the Constitution came into operation
What is 1787?
The year that the Bill of Rights was ratified
What is 1791?
The age requirement for a presidential candidate
What is 35 years old?
Fair treatment through the normal judicial system
What is due process?
When a person who is innocent is convicted of a crime.
What is wrongful conviction?
The first line of the Constitution
What is "We the people of the United States"?
The amendment that prohibits cruel and unusual punishment
What is the 8th Amendment?
The number of electoral votes a president would need to win
The right of people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures
What is the Fourth Amendment?
An admission to a criminal act…that the confessor did not commit
What is a false confession?
The amendment that granted suffrage to African Americans
What is the 15th Amendment?
The amendment that grants the right to practice one's own religion
What is the 1st Amendment?
The symbol of the Republican Party
What is the elephant?
An exception that allows a police officer to search a motor vehicle without a search warrant.
What is the automobile exception?
This movement began in the 1970s as a response to an increase in crime
What is Tough on Crime?
The amendment that established 18 to be the legal voting age
What is the 26th Amendment?
The amendment that prohibits unreasonable search and seizure
What is the Fourth Amendment?
The symbol of the Democratic party
What is the donkey?
This case established that trash cans on the street are not protected by the Fourth Amendment
Greenwood v. California
The 3 types of inequality that were discussed in the article about Incarceration and Social Inequality?
What is invisible, cumulative, and intergenerational?
The number of individuals that signed the Constitution
What is 39?
The amendment that grants any rights not given to the federal government to the states
What is the 10th Amendment?
The number of electoral votes that Wisconsin has
What is 10?
“You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be held against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be appointed to you.”
What are Miranda Rights?
Fabricating imaginary experiences as compensation for loss of memory.
HINT- psychological term
What is confabulation?