Civil liberties 1

Civil liberties 1

By Christina Camacho

Open Ended

What Amendments can you name and describe?

Multiple Choice

These Constitutional rights protect our personal freedoms and liberties.

• civil rights

• civil liberties

• natural rights

• all the above

Multiple Choice

What is the term refers to what the government must do as far as ensuring equal protection and freedom from discrimination?

• civil rights

• civil liberties

• civil air patrol

• civil actions

Open Ended

Why was a Bill of Rights added to the Constitution?

Multiple Choice

What part of the Constitution allows for the legislature to make all laws "necessary and proper" to carry out its function?

• checks and balances
• reserved powers  
• elastic clause
• concurrent powers 

Open Ended

How does the elastic clause give the federal government more power?

Multiple Choice

Which amendment prohibits cruel and unusual punishment?

• 1st

• 8th

• 4th

• 9th

Multiple Choice

Which amendment guarantees the right to form and join groups?

• 2nd

• 3rd

• 1st

• 7th

Multiple Choice

Which amendment guarantees the right of the individuals to own a gun?

• 2nd

• 9th

• 1st

• 14th

Multiple Choice

protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures

• 1st Amdndment

• 8th Amendment

• 4th Amendment

Multiple Choice

prohibits excessive bail, fines, and punishments

• 8th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 7th Amendment

Multiple Choice

Guarantees freedom of religion, speech, press, and the right to peacefully assemble.

• 13th Amendment

• 1st Amendment

• 6th Amendment

Multiple Choice

Guarantees due process of law and protects citizens from testifying against themselves. Also prohibits double jeopardy.

• 7th Amendment

• 5th Amendment

• 6th Amendment

Open Ended

Should the government be able to restrict or censor unpatriotic, disloyal, or critical speech in times of international conflict? How much freedom should journalists have to report on stories from the perspective of enemies or to repeat propaganda from opposing forces?

Multiple Choice

Which amendment abolished slavery?

• 5

• 10

• 13

• 15

Multiple Choice

Which amendment gave African Americans the right to vote?

• 5

• 10

• 15

• 19

Multiple Choice

The Bill of Rights applied only to the federal government until this Amendment "incorporated" and therefore made these notions applicable to the states as well

• 13

• 14

• 15

• 11

Multiple Choice

Who was noticeably absent from the 15th Amendment?

• 18 year-olds

• women and Native Americans

• men without property

• children born to citizens traveling outside the U.S.

Multiple Choice

Selective incorporation is best defined as which of the following?

• the legal requirement that an individual’s rights must be respected by a state or government; protected at the federal level by the Fifth Amendment, and at the state level by the Fourteenth

• The constitutional doctrine that applies some, but not all, protections of the Bill of Rights to the states and to all levels of government

• The rights and immunities protected by the Bill of Rights and interpreted by the Supreme Court as “implicit in the concept of ordered liberty”

• The belief that the entirety of the Bill of Rights applies to the states and to all levels of government, not just to the federal government