Identifying Amendments
Right to Free Speech & Press, Freedom of Religion, Right to assemble and petition.
What is the First Amendment?
Amendment enacted due to the policy of British troops staying in peoples home during the Revolutionary War?
What is the Third Amendment?
The right to protest peacefully on public property.
What is an example of the First Amendment?
Author of the Bill of Rights and Father of the Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
A formal Listing of the Basic rights of U.S. citizens.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The right to lawfully own firearms and organize well-regulated militias.
What is the Second Amendment?
Powers not explicitly mentioned in the Constitution are still reserved by the people.
What is the 9th Amendment?
A person arrested for stealing stands trial in court.
What is an example of the Sixth Amendment?
This is a person who approves warrants and oversees criminal and civil trials.
What is a Judge?
A person who is required to defend themselves in a legal action.
What is a defendant?
Concerns civil trials between individuals.
What is the 7th Amendment?
Hidden Freebie: Mr. DiBrita's favorite video game.
What is Minecraft?
Police obtain a warrant to search the home of a suspected drug dealer.
What is an example of the 4th Amendment?
HIDDEN FREEBIE: What is Mr. DiBrita's favorite color.
What is green? Yellow is also acceptable.
Putting a person on trial more than once for the same crime?
What is Double Jeopardy?
Right to a Grand Jury, Protection from Double Jeopardy, Self-Incrimination, Guarantees innocence until proven guilty, Requires the government pays compensation for property of American Citizens used in public works/use.
What is the Fifth Amendment?
Protection from unlawful searches and seizures.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
A married couple seek a divorce in court.
What is an example of the 7th Amendment?
Founding Father who urged the Bill of Right's author to draft the document through a letter. He believed it was a necessary inclusion that every person is entitled to.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Giving testimony that can be used against oneself.
What is self-incrimination?
Protection from Cruel and Unusual Punishments and excessive fines.
What is the 8th Amendment?
This Amendment is also known as the Reserved Power's clause.
What is the 10th Amendment?
Respecting the privacy of induvial in their own home.
What is an example of the Third Amendment?
Federalist who urged for the adoption of the Constitution without a Bill of Rights with promise of its later inclusion. Coined the term "Adopt Now, Amend Later"
Who is John Hancock?
The concept that the government must follow clear rules and act reasonably as it carries out the law.
What is Due Process?