Bill of Rights

Bill of Rights

The First Ten Amendments

Individual Rights: Amendment I (page 31)

Multiple Choice

Who demanded that a Bill of Rights be added to the Constitution?

• Federalists

• Anti-Federalists

Multiple Choice

The _____________ contains the Bill of Rights.

• Articles of Confederation

• Declaration of Independence

• Constitution

• Mayflower Compact

First Amendment

First Amendment

R = Religion

A = Assembly

P = Press

P = Petition

S = Speech

History of Religious Freedom

1620 – Plymouth Colony

1630 – Massachusetts Bay Colony

1631 – Roger Williams founded Rhode Island; separation of church and state

1681 – Penn’s Frames of Government

1689 – Toleration Acts – MD founded as a safe haven for Catholics

1791 – Bill of Rights guarantees freedom of religion, official separation of church and state

Second Amendment

Second Amendment

Right to bear arms

Third Amendment

Third Amendment

No Quartering

Americans cannot be forced to let soldiers live in their homes

Multiple Choice

Right to bear arms

• Amendment 1

• Amendment 2

• Amendment 3

Multiple Choice

No Quartering

• Amendment 1

• Amendment 2

• Amendment 3

Multiple Select

Which individual rights are protected by the First Amendment?

• Religion

• Assembly

• Press

• Petition

• Speech

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Amendment 4-8

• Rights of the Accused

• Due Process of Law – prohibits government officials from taking away a person’s life, liberty, and property without following fair and reasonable procedures.

• Can be traced back to the Magna Carta and English Bill of Rights

Fourth Amendment

Fourth Amendment

The police cannot search your property without a warrant from a judge.

This amendment protects our privacy.

Multiple Choice

The rights protected by the Fourth Amendment are best demonstrated by which of the following scenarios?

• A citizen charged with a crime is denied a trial by jury

• A citizen requests a warrant before being search by law enforcement

• A citizen journalist criticizes the President of the United States in the newspaper

• A citizen refuses the right to remain silent while under oath

Fifth Amendment

Amendment 5

• Due Process

• Eminent Domain - private property

• Protects people from...

• Double jeopardy (being tried in court twice for the same crime)

• Self-incrimination - Having to witness (speak) against themselves (taking the fifth”)

• Losing life, liberty, or property without a legal action, such as a trial

• Being punished for a capital (serious) crime without being charged by a Grand Jury

Sixth Amendment

Sixth Amendment

Criminal Cases

Right to a fair and speedy trial

Right to a lawyer

Right to see the witnesses against him/her

Seventh Amendment

Seventh Amendment

Civil Cases

Right to a jury trial

$20 or more

The Jury

The jury listens to the evidence during a trial. Then they decide what facts have been established by the evidence, and they draw inferences from those facts to make their decision. Jury members must work together and remain impartial.

The jury decides if a defendant is "guilty" or "not guilty" in criminal cases, and "liable" or "not liable" in civil cases.

Multiple Choice

Trial by jury in CRIMINAL cases

• 1st Amendment

• 4th Amendment

• 8th Amendment

• 6th Amendment

Multiple Choice

Trial by jury in CIVIL cases

• 1st Amendment

• 4th Amendment

• 7th Amendment

• 6th Amendment

Multiple Choice

Protects people from self-incrimination - having to witness (speak) against themselves

• 1st Amendment

• 5th Amendment

• 7th Amendment

• 6th Amendment

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Eighth Amendment

Eighth Amendment

No cruel or unusual punishment

No excessive bail

Ninth Amendment

Ninth Amendment

More rights to the PEOPLE

Tenth Amendment

Tenth Amendment

FEDERALISM

Powers reserved to the STATES

LIMITS the authority of the FEDERAL government

Multiple Choice

no cruel or unusual punishment; no excessive bail or fines

• 2nd Amendment

• 3rd Amendment

• 9th Amendment

• 8th Amendment

Multiple Choice

more rights for the PEOPLE

• 2nd Amendment

• 3rd Amendment

• 9th Amendment

• 8th Amendment

Multiple Choice

rights reserved for the STATES; FEDERALISM

• 10th Amendment

• 3rd Amendment

• 9th Amendment

• 8th Amendment

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