FACTS
List the 5 freedoms guaranteed under the First Amendment?
What is speech, assembly, petition, press, religion?
This amendment has the right to remain silent (protection against self-incrimination).
What is the 5th Amendment
This amendment outlaws cruel and unusual punishments
What is the Eighth Amendment
This allows newspapers and other agencies to report or print news and express opinions
What is freedom of the press, the 1st ammendment
Define freedom of assembly?
This allows people to gather in groups.
He wrote the first 12 amendments?
James Madison
You are told you must wait 3 years for a trial by a jury.
This violates what amendment?
What is the 6th Amendment
What does the ninth Amendment say about rights not listed in the Constitution?
Other rights and liberties not listed in the Constitution are kept by the people
Which right gives you the right to gather together and protest an unfair law? Which amendment is it under?
The right to assemble, the first amendment
If a defendant cannot afford one of these, one will be provided for them by the government
What is a lawyer
You are driving with your friends in your car and are stopped by the police. What amendment protects you from an unreasonable search?
The fourth amendment
The Constitutional Amendment that gives you "the right to remain silent." (It also says you can't be tried twice for the same crime or be deprived (not given) of life, liberty or property without "due process of law".)
What is the 5th Amendment
The people may peaceably do what?
assemble
The government takes your home to build a road without paying you "just compensation" or following any process.
This violates what amendment?
5th amendment
In 1788, several states refused to approve the constitution, before this was added. What is it? Bonus: Why?
What is a Bill of Rights.
Bonus- Lack of rights of individuals. they feared a strong central government would become tyrannical and infringe on individual liberties
How does the freedom of the press maintain a democratic society?
It allows individuals to be freely informed
What amendment was made in response to the British requiring the colonist to house and feed soldiers?
3rd Amendment
Define, double jeopardy?
When proven innocent, you cannot be tried twice for the same crime.
The right to a speedy trail falls under what amendment?
6th amendment
Which "Founding Father" strongly believed and promoted the ideals of separation of church and state?
Thomas Jefferson to ensure civil rights weren't tied to religious belief.
What do we call the first 10 amendments?
The Bill of Rights
What do we call a group of citizens who decide on a court case?
a jury
This amendments gives citizens the right to bear arms, the right to own a gun.
What is the second amendment
This amendment guarantees a right to a jury trial in civil cases
What is the 7th Amendment
"Due process" is in the fifth amendment, what does it mean?
The government must follow rules as it carries out the law. Requires the government to provide a person with notice and an opportunity to make their case in court before depriving them of life, liberty, or property.