Rights and Constitutional Limits
The name given to the first ten amendments
What is The Bill of Rights?
This protects publishing a newspaper editorial criticizing government.
What is Freedom of the Press?
This amendment protects against unreasonable searches and seizures.
What is the Fourth Amendment?
This right allows a person accused of a crime to receive legal representation.
What is the right to counsel (an attorney)?
This case protected flag burning as political expression in the circumstances of the case
What is Texas v. Johnson
This term means freedoms protected from improper government interference
What is Civil Liberties?
This freedom protects gathering peacefully for a political demonstration.
What is Freedom of Assembly?
This term means a reasonable basis supported by facts, rather than a hunch.
What is probable cause?
This amendment protects a speedy and public trial.
What is the Sixth Amendment?
This case ruled against public school sponsorship of an official prayer.
What is Engel v. Vitale?
This term describes protections against discrimination.
What is Civil Rights?
This is the freedom to send government officials a request to change a policy.
What is Freedom to Petition?
This Fifth Amendment protection prevents a person from being forced to testify against themselves in a criminal case.
Protection from Self-Incrimination
This amendment prohibits excessive bail.
What is the Eighth Amendment?
This case requires warnings before custodial interrogations.
What is Miranda v. Arizona?
Police question a suspect in custody without first explaining the right to remain silent. Later, the suspect faces a state felony trial but cannot afford a lawyer, and the court refuses to provide one. These two Supreme Court cases address these failures.
What is Miranda v. Arizona (which addresses warnings before a custodial interrogation) and
Gideon v. Wainwright (which requires appointed counsel for a defendant who cannot afford a lawyer in a state felony case.) ?
This means that government officials must obey the law and Constitutional limits just as citizens must.
What is the rule of law?
This religion clause limits government sponsorship of religion.
What is the Establishment Clause?
This protection requires fair procedures before government takes life, liberty, or property.
What is due process?
The Sixth Amendment right to confrontation gives the defense the right to do this during a trial.
What is the right to question witnesses against the accused?
This case requires an attorney for a defendant who cannot afford one in a state felony case.
What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
This principle limits government to constitutionally permitted powers.
What is Limited Government?
This religion clause protects individual religious practice.
What is the Free Exercise Clause?
This protection prevents a second trial by the same government for the same offense after an acquittal?
What is Double Jeopardy?
This term describes a jury that evaluates evidence without bias.
What is an impartial jury?
When a city allows signs that support a policy but bans signs that criticize it,the term is:
What is Viewpoint discrimination?