Bill of Rights Scenarios

Bill of Rights Scenarios

Can you identify the Amendment used in a real life scenario?

What Amendment is being violated?

Carlton Banks, an eighteen-year old college student, is arrested for stealing a classmate’s term paper and selling it on the Internet. When he appears before the judge, he asks for a lawyer to help defend him. The judge tells him if he is smart enough to be in college, he is smart enough to defend himself. Besides, he is not being charged with a felony, so the stakes are not very high.

Multiple Choice

Carlton Banks, an eighteen-year old college student, is arrested for stealing a classmate’s term paper and selling it on the Internet. When he appears before the judge, he asks for a lawyer to help defend himself. The judge tells him if he is smart enough to be in college, he is smart enough to defend himself. Besides, he is not being charged with a felony, so the stakes are not very high.

• 1st Amendment

• 6th Amendment

• 8th Amendment

• 10th Amendment

What Amendment is being violated?

Topanga Lawrence 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 Topanga's hands so that she will not be able to shoplift again.

Multiple Choice

Topanga Lawrence 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 Topanga's hands so that she will not be able to shoplift again.

• 6th Amendment

• 2nd Amendment

• 8th Amendment

• 1st Amendment

What Amendment(s) are being violated?

Will Banks 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 to forcefully interrogate him until he admits he knows the victim of the crime and was in the neighborhood where the murder took place.

Multiple Choice

Will Banks 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 to forcefully interrogate him until he admits he knows the victim of the crime and was in the neighborhood where the murder took place.

• 1st Amendment

• 5th Amendment

• 2nd Amendment

• 9th Amendment

What Amendment is being violated?

Elmer Fudd, an avid hunter, returns to his house one day to find police officers rummaging through his house looking for belongings. The police stated Daffy Duck tipped them off to search for hunting rifles and shotguns locked away in a safe. Their plan was to confiscate the weapons and take them away.

Multiple Choice

Elmer Fudd, an avid hunter, returns to his house one day to find police officers rummaging through his house looking for belongings. The police stated Daffy Duck tipped them off to search for hunting rifles and shotguns locked away in a safe. Their plan was to confiscate the weapons and take them away.

• 1st Amendment

• 7th Amendment

• 9th Amendment

• 4th Amendment

What Amendment is being violated?

Teachers at John Adams High School decided to protest for equal pay and a salary raise. The School Board neglected contract negotiations and the teachers decided to go on strike. The teachers at John Adams High School began picketing and protesting using words such as "equal pay, we get no say" on public sidewalks near the high school building. After a few hours, police arrest Mr. Feeny, a high school History teacher. He is transported downtown to the John Adams police station to be charged with protesting and picketing.

Multiple Choice

Teachers at John Adams High School decided to protest for equal pay and a salary raise. The School Board neglected contract negotiations and the teachers decided to go on strike. The teachers at John Adams High School began picketing and protesting using words such as "equal pay, we get no say" on public sidewalks near the high school building. After a few hours, police arrest Mr. Feeny, a high school History teacher. He is transported downtown to the John Adams police station to be charged with protesting and picketing.

• 3rd Amendment

• 6th Amendment

• 1st Amendment

• 2nd Amendment

What Amendment is being violated?

Because members of Congress are unhappy with students’ standardized test scores in many states, they pass a federal law that abolishes local school boards and requires a standardized national curriculum in all states.

Multiple Choice

Because members of Congress are unhappy with students’ standardized test scores in many states, they pass a federal law that abolishes local school boards and requires a standardized national curriculum

• 10th Amendment

• 3rd Amendment

• 2nd Amendment

• 5th Amendment