5 freedoms: speech, press, religion, assembly, petition

A constitutional amendment designed to protect individuals accused of crimes. It includes the right to counsel, the right to confront witnesses, and the right to a speedy and public trial.

Protects Americans against unreasonable searches and seizures. No soldier, Gov agent, or police can search your home without a search warrant.

Right to bear arms

The government may not house soldiers in private homes without consent of the owner

A constitutional amendment designed to protect the rights of persons accused of crimes, including protection against double jeopardy, self-incrimination, and punishment without due process of law.

Right to trial by jury in civil cases

forbids excessive bail and cruel or unusual punishment

The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.

A person decides to write a petition to stop a waste water treatment center from building near his/her town. What amendment are they exercising?

The police come to your house and arrest your father for having a gun which he legally owns. What amendment has been violated?

The government forces you to house 5 soldiers in your home. What amendment does not allow this?

A police officer pulls you over for speeding. He has you step out of the car and then searches it. He has no warrant or probably cause. What amendment protects you from this?

A person is found not guilty of armed robbery. The courts decide to try him again. What amendment does not allow this?

You choose to have your criminal case heard by a jury. What amendment have you used?

A person is arrested but never sees a judge or courtroom. He is kept in jails for 18 months. What amendment was violated?

A person is sentenced to death for murder. The governor chooses to let the person be executed by having him thrown out of an airplane. What amendment has been violated?

The government says that no one in America is allowed to wear the color blue anymore. What amendment says the government cannot do this?

The government says that states can't decide to build roads in their state. What amendment has been violated?

Which of the following scenarios represents a violation of one of the civil liberties protected by the Bill of Rights?

When the Bill of Rights was ratified in 1789, the amendments protected civil liberties infringement from which levels of government?

“There are other good things of less moment. I will now add what I do not like [about the Constitution]. First the omission of a bill of rights providing clearly & without the aid of sophisms for freedom of religion, freedom of the press, protection against standing armies, restriction against monopolies, the eternal & unremitting force of the habeas corpus laws, and trials by jury in all matters of fact triable by the laws of the land & not by the law of Nations. . . . Let me add that a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth, general or particular, & what no just government should refuse or rest on inference.” -Thomas Jefferson, letter to James Madison, 20 December 1787 Based on the text, would the following statement be True or False? The Bill of Rights places necessary restrictions on the federal government’s power.

“[I]t has already been incontrovertibly shown that on the present occasion a bill of rights was totally unnecessary, and that it might be accompanied with some inconveniency and danger if there was any defect in the attempt to enumerate the privileges of the people. This system proposes a union of thirteen sovereign and independent states in order to give dignity and energy to the transaction of their common concerns. It would be idle, therefore to countenance the idea that any other powers were delegated to the general government than those specified in the Constitution itself.” Justice Thomas McKean at the Pennsylvania State Convention to ratify the Constitution, edited by John Back McMaster and Frederick D. Stone, 1788 Which of the following best summarizes the author’s argument?