Bill of Rights Part 2

Bill of Rights Part 2

Multiple Choice

Guarantees freedom from testifying against yourself

• 1st Amendment
• 3rd Amendment
• 5th Amendment
• 7th Amendment

Multiple Choice

What is the 5th Amendment?

• no person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime

• no search without a warrant

• the right to refuse housing to officers

• right to freedom of speech

Sixth Amedment

You can't get arrested and just thrown in jail forever. You get a speedy process. Sometimes the process takes awhile because your lawyer is working on gathering evidence to support you. Dependent on the crime, you may be offered bail. This is money you would pay to PROMISE to return to court. When you return to court, you get your money back. If you don't return to court, you are in MORE trouble. The amount of bail is dependent on the severity of the crime.

Provide a Witness

If you are charged with committing a crime on Tuesday, January 5th at 9:15 am but you were in Zoom with Uribe or I, you could ask us to be your witness. Your alibi to prove you couldn't have committed the crime, you were with us!

Multiple Choice

speedy trial and confront witnesses

• 4th

• 5th

• 6th

• 7th

7th Amendment

• These are the rights you have if you want to sue someone.

• When you go to sue someone you have the option of having a jury or just letting the judge decide.

• Adding a jury would take time. Time is money...paying for your lawyer, taking days off of work, etc. Dependent on what you are suing for you have to think about this.

• Judge Judy would be an example of a Civil Trial without a jury. HOWEVER, that is TV and there are some disclaimers. I'll explain tomorrow.

Multiple Choice

Seventh amendment

• Any rights not given to federal government are given to the states and people.

• Trial by jury in Civil suits where money exceeds 20 dollars.

• Right to bare arms

• Religion, Speech , Press, Assembly, Petition

Bail & Punishment

If, for example, you are charged with stealing 50 airpods, your bail would not be $5 million. That's not reasonable. Also, while you are in jail for stealing airpods, the cops can't hang you by your fingernails. You must be treated humanely.

Multiple Choice

True or False: the government is not allowed to make you pay unreasonable fines

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

True or False: the government is not allowed to make you pay unreasonable fines

• True

• False

Basically....

This means you have rights even if they are unenumerated (a fancy way to say specifically stated). If Ms. Elsbernd wins the lotto and wants to quit - she can! (She would never, but she could!) If Mr. Uribe wants to dye his hair orange during baseball season - he can!

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Rights to the states...

Some things are left to the states. School, for example. Eighth graders in California learn US history. Eighth graders in Nevada have already learned it. A more current example...ELECTIONS...how states run their elections and count votes is up the the states. Marriage laws...how old you need to be. Driving laws are also state rules.

Some review questions....

Multiple Choice

An amendment is a...

• Change to a law

• A law

• A long list of laws

Multiple Choice

A right is...

• Opportunities for some people

• Freedoms everyone has that are protected by the law

• A promise

Multiple Choice

True or False: According to the 5th Amendment, you have the right to remain silent

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Which of these is not allowed, according to the 8th Amendment?

• reasonable fines

• reasonable bail

• jail terms

• cruel punishments

Multiple Choice

Which of these is not allowed, according to the 8th Amendment?

• reasonable fines

• reasonable bail

• jail terms

• cruel punishments