Civil Liberties (2nd Amendment)

Civil Liberties (2nd Amendment) Part 1

By Christopher Berry

SWBAT develop historical awareness by recognizing how historical accounts change over time IOT evaluate the Supreme Court’s interpretations of the freedoms articulated in the 2nd Amendment in landmark court cases.

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Explain the 2nd Amendment, and evaluate its various interpretations. 

 

​Objective

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Multiple Choice

2nd Amendment

• Right to bear arms

• Suffrage (right to vote) for black men

• Suffrage (right to vote) for women

• Search and seizure, must have search warrant

Multiple Choice

What is the 2nd Amendment?

• The right to shoot bears
• The right to bear arms
• The right to go bear in the forrest
• The right to have two arms that belong to bears

Multiple Choice

Which amendment gives you the right to keep weapons or arms?

• First Amendment
• Second Amendment
• Third Amendment
• Fourth Amendment

Multiple Select

Concerned about rising crime, lawmakers for the District of Columbia ban all handguns in the city, and require that shot-guns be kept unloaded and/or disassembled.

• No violation

• Violation

• 2nd Amendment

• 1 st Amendment

• 5th Amendment

Multiple Choice

Concerned about rising crime, lawmakers for the District of Columbia ban all handguns in the city, and require that shot-guns be kept unloaded and/or disassembled. What amendment of the Bill of Rights is being violated?

• 7th Amendment
• 1st Amendment
• 2nd Amendment
• No Violation - They CAN do this

Multiple Choice

The Bill of Rights was added to the U.S. Constitution primarily to

• provide the President with power in times of emergency

• establish fair and impartial elections

• protect individual liberties

• guarantee voting privileges

Multiple Choice

What Are Individual Rights ? ? ?

• Individual rights support racism and judge people by there color of skin.

• Individual rights don't guarantee liberty instead support violence.

• Individual rights refer to the liberties of each individual to pursue life.

• Individual rights support rights for colored people and no one else.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements explains how the Supreme Court has attempted to balance the power of the government with protections for individual liberties?

• In cases involving interpretations of the Second Amendment, the Court has shown a commitment to an individual’s right to own a gun

• In cases involving interpretations of the First Amendment, the Court has shown a commitment to an individual’s right to freedom of speech, even when it poses clear danger of harm

• In cases involving interpretations of the Fourth Amendment, the Court has shown a commitment to the government’s right to search an individual's cell phone without a warrant

• In cases involving interpretations of the Eighth Amendment, the Court has shown a commitment to the government’s right to punish as they deem necessary

Multiple Choice

“The Second Amendment was adopted to protect the right of the people of each of the several States to maintain a well-regulated militia. It was a response to concerns raised during the ratification of the Constitution that the power of Congress to disarm the state militias and create a national standing army posed an intolerable threat to the sovereignty of the several States. Neither the text of the Amendment nor the arguments advanced by its proponents evidenced the slightest interest in limiting any legislature’s authority to regulate private civilian uses of firearms. Specifically, there is no indication that the Framers of the Amendment intended to enshrine the common-law right of self-defense in the Constitution.”

Associate Justice John Paul Stevens, dissenting opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008)

Which of the following statements is most consistent with the author’s argument in this passage?

• The Second Amendment states that the government can only ban firearms produced after 1791

• The Second Amendment does not protect a person’s right to have a weapon for self-defense

• The Second Amendment states that the government cannot ban the sale of any weapon to any person

• The Second Amendment protects a person’s right to own a gun from government infringement

Multiple Choice

In Supreme Court cases that consider the balance of power between the government's protection of the public and ensuring the rights of individuals as related to the Second Amendment, how has the Court usually ruled?

• The Supreme Court has usually made decisions that uphold the right of an individual to own a gun

• The Supreme Court has usually made decisions that uphold the power of the government to interrogate suspects with limited interference

• The Supreme Court has usually made decisions that uphold the right of an individual to a quick and speedy trial

• The Supreme Court has usually made decisions that uphold the power of the government to place restrictions on firearms

Multiple Choice

“As the quotations earlier in this opinion demonstrate, the inherent right of self-defense has been central to the Second Amendment right. The handgun ban [by the District of Columbia] amounts to a prohibition of an entire class of ‘arms’ that is overwhelmingly chosen by American society for that lawful purpose. The prohibition extends, moreover, to the home, where the need for defense of self, family, and property is most acute. Under any of the standards of scrutiny that we have applied to enumerated constitutional rights. . . banning from the home ‘the most preferred firearm in the nation to ‘keep’ and use for protection of one’s home and family, . . .would fail constitutional muster.’”

-Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, majority opinion in District of Columbia v. Heller (2008)

Which of the following statements is most consistent with the author’s argument in this passage?

• The Second Amendment states that the government cannot ban the sale of any weapon to any person

• The Second Amendment does not protect a person’s right to have a weapon for self-defense

• The Second Amendment protects a person’s right to own a gun from government infringement

• The Second Amendment states that the government can only ban an entire class of weapons

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