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Bill of Rights
7 Principles
Constitutional Convention
Which amendment does this right come from?
7 Principles Application
100
The right to bear arms.
What is Amendment 2?
100
Power in the government comes from the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
100
The Constitution was written in this year.
What is 1787?
100
Carolyn is arrested for shoplifting a candy bar from a neighborhood convenience store. At trial, she is found guilty. The judge decides that the appropriate punishment is to cut off Carolyn’s hands so that she will not be able to shoplift again.
What is amendment 8?
100
A citizen records a speech criticizing the President and publishes it to a blog.
What are Individual Rights?
200
The five basic freedoms protected by the first amendment.
What are freedoms of speech, press, religion, petition, and assembly?
200
Certain rights are guaranteed to every U.S. citizen to protect them from abuse by the government.
What are individual rights?
200
The primary author of the Constitution.
Who is James Madison?
200
A known drug dealer is arrested for suspected connections to an inner city murder. The police do not inform him of his rights and immediately begin to interrogate him. They continue until he admits he knows the victim of the crime and was in the neighborhood where the murder took place.
What is Amendment 5? (Amendment 6 also acceptable)
200
Citizens from each state elect Senators and Representatives to represent them in the United States Congress.
What is Republicanism?
300
Protection from unreasonable search and seizure.
What is amendment 4?
300
In a republican form of government, citizens elect these to do the work of governing.
What are representatives?
300
This group, led by George Mason and Patrick Henry, resisted the ratification of the Constitution.
Who are the anti-federalists?
300
A person is found not guilty of armed robbery. The prosecutor is frustrated about the outcome and believes the jury is wrong. The prosecutor wants a second chance with a new jury to try the case again.
What is the 5th Amendment? (No Double Jeopardy)
300
"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."- Preamble to the U.S. Constitution
What is Popular Sovereignty?
400
The right to trial by jury in civil suits of a value more than $20.
What is Amendment 7?
400
Powers of the federal government are divided among the three branches of government for this reason.
What is to keep the government from abusing power?
400
The compromise leading to the creation of a bi-cameral legislature is known as this.
What is The Great Compromise?
400
Dan is accused of a crime and arrested. He has not been before a judge or in a courtroom and has been in jail for 18 months.
What is Amendment 7?
400
Every bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate, shall, before it become a Law, be presented to the President of the United States; if he approve he shall sign it, but if not he shall return it, with his Objections to that House in which it shall have originated." - Article I Section 7.2, U.S. Constitution
What is checks and balances?
500
Rights and powers not specifically given to the federal government are reserved for the states.
What is Amendment 10?
500
Federalism divides power between these two levels of government.
What are state and federal?
500
These are the three authors of the Federalist papers.
Who are Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay?
500
A citizen is convicted on a traffic charge of driving at an excessive speed. The sentence is 10 years in prison.
What is Amendment 8?
500
"No state shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money.." - Article 1 Section 10.1, U.S. Constitution
What is federalism?