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Amendment that protects the right to an Attorney

6th Amendment

100

Spoken Defamation

Slander

(Slander Spoken, Libel Literature)

100

John criticizes the government and encourages his social media followers to eggs senators' homes. This kind of speech is...

Not protected

Illegal

Not allowed

100

The most popular pizza chain in the US.

Domino's

100

This 90's animated movie featured the song "A Whole New World"

Aladdin

200

No Cruel or Unusual Punishment and No Excessive Bail

8th Amendment

200

The peripheral information your phone collects.

Metadata

200

Billiam is an officer. He pulls a car over and as he is walking up to the car he notices there is a bag of white powder in the backseat. He asks the driver to give the powder to him to test, but the driver argues Billiam does not have a warrant. The law sides with

Billiam

200

Between lightning and the sun, this is the hotter by temperature.

Lightning 
200

What molten rock is called before it erupts.

Magma

300

This legal clause of this Amendment protects a person's right to participate in the religious practices of their chosen faith.

Free Exercise Clause of the 1st Amendment

300

Evidence found with an illegal warrant or warrantless search is considered this.

Fruit of the Poisonous Tree

300

A student is turned away from a public school on the basis of their race. This Supreme Court case argues that it is unconstitutional on the grounds that separate is inherently unequal.

Brown vs. Board of Education

300

The heaviest tree-dwelling animal in the world.

The orangutan

300

The lobe in the brain responsible for decision making.

Frontal Lobe 

(Prefrontal Cortex)

400

Right to the privacy of your thoughts

1st Amendment

400

The papers Daniel Ellsberg gave to the Washington Post and the New York Times Companies having to do with the Vietnam War.

Pentagon Papers

400
  1. Law enforcement brings a case against a man for possessing illegal drugs after finding them in a warranted search of the man’s house for illegal firearms. The man’s attorney argues that the warrant was to search for firearms, not drugs, so this drug evidence is “fruit of a poisonous tree." The judge will determine that the evidence is...

Admissible in court

400

Largest monkey species in the world.

Mandrill

400

The currency of Russia

Rubles

500

The clauses of the 14th Amendment used to Selectively Incorporate the Bill of Rights to the state level.

Equal Protection Clause and Due Process Clause

500

The process of applying the Bill of Rights to the state level.

Selective Incorporation

500

During the Vietnam War, protesters of Lyndon Banes Johnson's handling of the war would chant "Hey hey LBJ, who you gonna kill today?" The president argued that this was slander due to the implication that he personally was killing people. The SCOTUS said...

Not Slander

This is protected speech

500

The longest MLB baseball game in recorded history was between the Mets and the Cardinals. This was the number of innings played.

25 innings

500

The three nations that make up Scandinavia 

Norway, Sweden, and Denmark