Civil Liberties

protects people from unreasonable searches and seizures

• 1st Amdndment

• 8th Amendment

• 4th Amendment

prohibits excessive bail, fines, and punishments

• 8th Amendment

• 15th Amendment

• 7th Amendment

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

• 13th Amendment

• 1st Amendment

• 6th Amendment

Guarantees the right to a trial by jury in criminal cases.

• 6th Amendment

• 5th Amendment

• 4th Amendment

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

• 7th Amendment

• 5th Amendment

• 6th Amendment

Guarantees the right to a trial by jury in most civil cases.

• 1st Amendment

• 6th Amendment

• 7th Amendment

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof

• Establishment Clause

• Free Exercise Clause

• Sedition Clause

• Schenck v. United States

the First Amendment guarantee that citizens may freely engage in the religious activities of their choice

• Free Exercise Clause

• Establishment Clause

• Sedition

• Prior Restraint

the action or crime of making a false spoken statement damaging to a person's reputation (defamation).

• Slander

• Libel

• Prior Restraint

• Sedition

Written defamation

• Slander

• Libel

• Sedition

• Treason