Personal Freedoms
Criticizing the government is protected by this first amendment right.
What is freedom of speech
Being tried twice for the same crime.
What is double jeopardy
The 13th amendment ended this practice.
What is slavery
A trial between two people who are in a disagreement
What is a civil trial
The right to vote
What is suffrage
Writing letters to Congress in order to change a law is an example of this first amendment right.
What is freedom to Petition.
Testifying against yourself
What is self-incrimination
This amendment defined citizenship and granted citizenship to former slaves
What is the 14th amendment
These are rights listed in the constitution
What are enumerated rights
To reduce
What is abridge
This amendment states that you cannot search a person, their property or things without a warrant or probable cause
What is the 4th Amendment.
The government cannot take your property without paying you for it.
What is Eminent Domain
Which Act ended segregation in public places and business
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1964
This amendment states that people have rights besides the ones listed in the constitution
What is the 9th amendment
Rights of citizens to political and social freedom and equality
What are civil rights
This is a limit placed on Freedom of the Press
What is cannot threaten the security of the country, cannot be obscene or cannot be false or misleading
Money a defendant pays as security to stay out of jail while waiting for trial
What is bail
Which amendment made is illegal for the government to deny someone the right to vote based on race
What is the 15th Amendment
These are powers belonging to the States
What are reserved powers
Congress cannot make one religion the country's religion.
What is the Establishment Clause
The three limits on Freedom to Assemble
What is time, place or manner
This constitutional principle is applied when police use a warrant to search and seize evidence for a trial.
What is due process
This act ended discrimination practices (like literacy tests) at polling places
What is the Voting Rights Acts of 1965
This amendment states that any powers not given to the federal government in the constitution are given to the states and the people of the U.S.
What is the 10th amendment
A written false statement that is damaging to a person's reputation
What is libel?